文摘
The sampled-grating distributed Bragg reflector (SGDBR) laser is a typical and important photonic integrated device, and has potential wide application to agile optical networks. A new dynamic model for this device has been developed, which combines the traveling-wave method for the active region and the transfer-matrix method for the passive sections into a single procedure. The behaviors of wavelength switching of the SGDBR laser, which include the transient spectrum and mode competition, have been studied in detail using this model. A new efficient way has been proposed to improve the wavelength switching performance only by increasing the coupling coefficients without changing the carrier density.