Upstream traffic transmitter using injection-locked Fabry-Perot laser diode as modulator for WDM access networks

Author

Chan, L.Y. ; Chan, C.K. ; Tong, D. T K ; Tong, F. ; Chen, L.K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, China

Volume

38

Issue

1

fYear

2002

fDate

1/3/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

43

Lastpage

45

Abstract

An upstream-traffic transmitter based on a Fabry-Perot laser diode (FP-LD) as modulator is proposed and demonstrated for wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) access networks. By injection-locking the FP-LD with the downstream wavelength at the optical network unit (ONU), the original downstream data can be largely suppressed while the upstream data can be transmitted on the same injection-locked wavelength by simultaneously directly-modulating the FP-LD

Keywords

data communication; electro-optical modulation; laser mode locking; optical fibre subscriber loops; optical transmitters; semiconductor lasers; telecommunication traffic; wavelength division multiplexing; 50 km; WDM access networks; directly modulated laser diode; downstream wavelength; injection-locked Fabry-Perot laser diode; injection-locked wavelength; injection-locking; optical network unit; original downstream data; upstream data transmission; upstream traffic transmitter; wavelength division multiplexed access networks;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Electronics Letters

Publisher

iet

ISSN

0013-5194

Type

jour

DOI

10.1049/el:20020015

Filename

977550