title: Wide Tuning Range Wavelength-Swept Laser With Two Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers.
abstract: We demonstrate a wide tuning range high-speed wavelength-swept semiconductor laser based on a polygon scanning filter that is common to two laser cavities. Linear wavelength tuning was achieved over 145 nm around 1310 nm at a tuning repetition rate of 20 kHz. The wavelength tuning filter is expandable to accommodate multiple semiconductor optical amplifiers for further widening of the laser wavelength tuning range.
authors.affiliation: Harvard Medical School and Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114 USA.
authors.forename: W Y
authors.initials: WY
authors.lastname: Oh
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Yun
authors.forename: G J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Tearney
authors.forename: B E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Bouma