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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2018
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Tao Zhang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Liang Du, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Xiangjun Zhao, Fremont, CA (US);
Changhong Joy Jiang, Dublin, CA (US);
Cedric Fung Lam, San Carlos, CA (US);
Shuang Yin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Adam Edwin Taylor Barratt, Portland, OR (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for biasing a tunable laser during burst-on and burst-off states through a common-cathode laser driving circuit includes delivering a bias current to an anode of a gain-section diode having a shared substrate with the laser, and receiving a burst mode signal indicative of a burst-on state or a burst-off state. When the burst mode signal is indicative of the burst-off state, the method includes sinking a sink current away from the anode of the gain-section diode. The sink current is less than the bias current delivered to the anode of the gain-section diode. When the burst mode signal transitions to be indicative of the burst-on state from the burst-off state, the method includes ceasing the sinking of the sink current away from the anode of the gain-section diode, and delivering an overshoot current to the anode of the gain-section diode to accelerate heating of the gain-section diode.