Bit-error performance of a newly designed external-cavity diode laser for uncooled WDM applications

Author

Sato, Toshiya

Author_Institution

Access Network Service Syst. Labs., Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp., Chiba, Japan

Volume

22

Issue

7

fYear

2004

fDate

7/1/2004 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1782

Lastpage

1788

Abstract

The impact of fiber chromatic dispersion and an isolated mode hop on the bit-error performance of an external-cavity diode laser newly designed for uncooled wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) applications was investigated. Bit-error-rate measurements confirmed that the power penalty resulting from optical waveform distortion after a transmission through 80 km of standard single-mode fiber (SMF) was suppressed to about 1 dB. Moreover, it was confirmed that the deterioration in the bit-error performance caused by an isolated mode hop can be disregarded.

Keywords

error statistics; optical communication equipment; optical distortion; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; semiconductor lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; bit error rate; external-cavity diode laser; fiber chromatic dispersion; isolated mode hop; optical waveform distortion; power penalty suppression; uncooled wavelength division multiplexing; Bit error rate; Chromatic dispersion; Degradation; Diode lasers; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical design; Optical distortion; Optical resonators; Wavelength division multiplexing; Gratings; lasers; optical communications; optical hole burning; wavelength-division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2004.824394

Filename

1310428