Experimental study on narrow spectral width FP lasers with a wavelength detuned band-pass filter

In this paper, a 1310 nm InAlGaAs/InP multiple quantum well ridge waveguide FP laser with a built-in wavelength detuned band-pass filter has been fabricated and investigated in experiments. When compared to the reference FP laser fabricated in the same wafer, it is observed that the root-mean-square spectral width can be approximately reduced to half; and moreover, significant improvements on the transmission performances in terms of the power penalty at given transmission distance and the longest transmission distance at given bit error rate, have been achieved for the proposed laser at the same fabrication cost.