Fast Switching Slotted Fabry–Perot Laser for Phase Modulated Transmission Systems

Author

Shi, Kai ; Smyth, Frank ; Reid, Douglas A. ; Browning, Colm ; Roycroft, Brendan ; Corbett, Brian ; Peters, Frank H. ; Barry, Liam P.

Author_Institution

Res. Inst. of Networks & Commun. Eng. (RINCE), Dublin City Univ., Dublin, Ireland

Volume

28

Issue

23

fYear

2010

Firstpage

3409

Lastpage

3416

Abstract

In this paper we characterize the switching dynamics of a novel three section slotted Fabry-Perot laser for phase modulated transmission systems. The static characterization shows that an average linewidth of 538 kHz is achieved for all 25 ITU 100 G channels of the laser, which is able to support differential quadrature phase-shift-keying (DQPSK) transmission at 10 Gbd symbol rate. An average wavelength switching time of 5 ns is also demonstrated using two measurement techniques. The performance during switching is examined by measuring the time resolved bit error rate (BER) of a 10.7 Gbd DQPSK packet transmission system. The time taken to go from no measured errors on one channel to no measured errors on the other channel is found to be less than 16 ns for the switching combination studied.

Keywords

Fabry-Perot resonators; channel spacing; error statistics; optical modulation; optical transmitters; photonic switching systems; quadrature phase shift keying; quantum well lasers; BER; ITU 100 G channels; QPSK; differential quadrature phase-shift-keying; fast switching slotted Fabry-Perot laser; packet transmission system; phase modulated transmission systems; quantum well laser; time resolved bit error rate; Fabry-Perot; Laser modes; Laser tuning; Measurement by laser beam; Optical switches; Linewidth; phase modulation formats; slotted Fabry–Perot laser; wavelength switching;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2010.2085421

Filename

5598500