A low-cost WDM source with an ASE injected Fabry-Perot semiconductor laser

Author

Kim, Hyun Deok ; Kang, Seung-Goo ; Chang-Hee Le

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Seoul, South Korea

Volume

12

Issue

8

fYear

2000

Firstpage

1067

Lastpage

1069

Abstract

We propose and demonstrate a novel wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) source employing an uncooled and unisolated Fabry-Perot semiconductor laser diode (F-P SLD). The output wavelength of F-P SLD is locked to the externally injected narrow-band amplified spontaneous emission (ASE). The measured side-mode suppression ratio of the wavelength-locked F-P SLD is larger than 29 dB, when the extinction ratio of the directly modulated light output is above 13 dB. We achieved error-free transmission of 155-Mb/s data over 120 km of nondispersion-shifted fiber. We also propose a cost-effective WDM passive optical network architecture based on the proposed light sources.

Keywords

laser mode locking; light sources; optical fibre networks; optical transmitters; semiconductor lasers; superradiance; wavelength division multiplexing; 120 km; 155 Mbit/s; ASE injected Fabry-Perot semiconductor laser; cost-effective WDM passive optical network architecture; directly modulated light output; error-free transmission; externally injected narrow-band amplified spontaneous emission; extinction ratio; light sources; low-cost WDM source; measured side-mode suppression ratio; nondispersion-shifted fiber; output wavelength; uncooled unisolated Fabry-Perot semiconductor laser; wavelength-division-multiplexed source; wavelength-locked F-P SLD; Diode lasers; Extinction ratio; Fabry-Perot; Narrowband; Optical modulation; Spontaneous emission; Superluminescent diodes; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing; Wavelength measurement;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.868010

Filename

868010