Abstract: An optical transmitter that includes a wavelength tunable laser diode (LD) with a narrowed emission linewidth is disclosed. The optical transmitter further includes a feedback unit and an optical attenuator. The feedback unit, receiving a portion of laser light of the wavelength tunable LD, generates feedback light by rotating the polarization of the laser light by 90±5°, and returns thus generated feedback light in the wavelength tunable LD. The optical attenuator adjusts power of the feedback light to reduce a line wide of the laser light, or frequency noises thereof.