Title :
Reach enhancement of a 10 Gb/s directly modulated laser with demultiplexer filtering
Author :
Downie, J.D. ; Vodhanel, Richard S.
Author_Institution :
Corning Inc., NY, USA
Abstract :
Transmission of a highly chirped 10 Gb/s directly modulated laser over more than 100 km of a non-zero dispersion shifted fiber is demonstrated with Q > 18 dB using filtering effects from a flattop WDM demultiplexer.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; demultiplexing equipment; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical filters; optical modulation; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; chirped directly modulated laser; demultiplexer filtering; flattop WDM demultiplexer; nonzero dispersion shifted fiber; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Bandwidth; Chirp; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Filtering; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber filters; Optical fiber testing; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2004. LEOS 2004. The 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8557-8
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2004.1363474
