Future optical communication systems will exploit increasingly wide optical wavelength bands to continue scaling capacity per installed fiber. Currently, optical components such as tunable lasers and modulators are designed to operate in a single wavelength band only and multiple designs are therefore needed for a single system. Improved tunable lasers operating seamlessly over these wider bands would both simplify system deployment and management. Increasing the laser tuning range requires improved wavelength selection mechanisms to simplify calibration and improve performance. We report a tunable laser with an 11THz tuning range and 14 mW output power. This laser is based on what we believe to be a novel silicon optical bench platform augmented with thermal membranes to enable both low tuning power consumption and low crosstalk laser tuning. Reduction of crosstalk simplifies both calibration and control of the laser frequency. The total power consumption of the tunable laser is only 700 mW.
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