Correlation between dispersion penalty and time-resolved chirp for an integrated widely tunable electroabsorption-modulated SGDBR laser across the EDFA gain bandwidth

Author

Koh, P.C. ; Schow, C. ; Akulova, Y.A. ; Fish, G.A.

Author_Institution

Agility Commun. Inc, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Volume

15

Issue

7

fYear

2003

fDate

7/1/2003 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1011

Lastpage

1013

Abstract

We report, for the first time, the experimental relationship between time-resolved chirp and dispersion penalty across the 30-nm tuning range of a sampled-grating distributed Bragg reflector semiconductor-optical-amplifier electroabsorption-modulator laser. The extinction ratio, time-resolved chirp, and dispersion power penalties at transmission distances of 200, 275, and 350 km are presented for various values of effective alpha. Finally, a suitable method of computing the effective alpha from time-resolved spectroscopy is also presented.

Keywords

chirp modulation; distributed Bragg reflector lasers; electro-optical modulation; electroabsorption; integrated optics; laser tuning; optical fibre dispersion; optical transmitters; quantum well devices; semiconductor optical amplifiers; time resolved spectroscopy; 200 km; 275 km; 350 km; EDFA gain bandwidth; dispersion penalty; dispersion power penalties; effective alpha; extinction ratio; integrated widely tunable electroabsorption-modulated SGDBR laser; offset quantum-well structure; sampled-grating distributed Bragg reflector SOA electroabsorption-modulator laser; time-resolved chirp; time-resolved spectroscopy; Bandwidth; Chirp; Dispersion; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Extinction ratio; Laser tuning; Semiconductor lasers; Spectroscopy; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2003.813412

Filename

1206792