Abstract

Tunable lasers have been the subject of considerable interest ever since the start of the wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) revolution. In this paper, we bring together views on tunable lasers from different types of companies in the value chain, from operators to laser manufacturers. The purpose of the paper is to give an overview of the state of the art in both deployment and development, as well as to try to predict trends over the coming years.

© 2006 IEEE

Nanosecond tunable laser for the all-optical switching network

Zhiqian Yin, Qi Sun, Zhewen Liu, Yaguang Wang, Leilei Wang, Yunshan Zhang, Xingbang Zhu, Tao Fang, and Xiangfei Chen
Appl. Opt. 61(34) 10092-10097 (2022)

SLA-Aware Protocol for Efficient Tunable Laser Utilization to Support Incremental Upgrade in Long-Reach Passive Optical Networks

Huan Song, Amitabha Banerjee, Biswanath Mukherjee, Byoung-Whi Kim, Sunhee Yang, and Youngil Park
J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 1(5) 512-520 (2009)

An Optimal Investment Strategy for Tunable, Pluggable, and Tunable Pluggable Optical Transceivers in Static DWDM Networks

Mitsumasa Okada, Junichi Kani, Toshio Watanabe, and Naoto Yoshimoto
J. Opt. Commun. Netw. 1(1) 3-16 (2009)

Tunable directly modulated fiber ring laser using a reflective semiconductor optical amplifier for WDM access networks

Zih-Rong Lin, Cheng-Kuang Liu, Yu-Jhu Jhang, and Gerd Keiser
Opt. Express 18(17) 17610-17619 (2010)

Electro-optically tunable laser with ultra-low tuning power dissipation and nanosecond-order wavelength switching for coherent networks

Yuta Ueda, Takahiko Shindo, Shigeru Kanazawa, Naoki Fujiwara, and Mitsuteru Ishikawa
Optica 7(8) 1003-1006 (2020)