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We report on the investigation and realization of photonic filters based on the combination of fractional compositions of a few basic grating periods. Using a minimum set of two basic periods Lambda(1) and Lambda(2) we demonstrate comb-like few mode photonic band gap structures with arbitrary numbers of bands and frequency spacing between the bands. Optically integrated filters of different comb periods result in switchable wavelength filters for channel selection in WDM applications.
We report on dynamic measurements on antiphase complex coupled 1.55 /spl mu/m DFB lasers. The antiphase complex coupling mechanism is realized by periodically etching the active layer and quarternary InGaAsP overgrowth. This new fabrication approach results in very narrow linewidths measured on devices with rather short resonator lengths. The minimum linewidth for a 375 /spl mu/m long ridge waveguide laser was only 250 kHz at an optical output power of 4 mW. The RC-limited 3dB-bandwidth for those devices was /spl sim/6 GHz. Using circuit model corrections, the intrinsic bandwidth limitation of those lasers was found to be 17.4 GHz.