Title :
Parallel direct modulation laser transmitters for high-speed high-sensitivity laser communications
Author :
Caplan, D.O. ; Carney, J.J. ; Constantine, S.
Author_Institution :
MIT Lincoln Lab., Lexington, MA, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate new power-efficient techniques for generating high-fidelity waveforms from directly modulated lasers using periodic high-contrast spectral and temporal windowing. Real-time optical M-FSK communication experiments demonstrate flexible and scalable transceiver designs with record sensitivity.
Keywords :
frequency shift keying; optical design techniques; optical modulation; optical transceivers; waveform generators; high-fidelity waveform generation; high-speed high-sensitivity laser communications; parallel direct modulation laser transmitters; periodic high-contrast windowing; real-time optical M-FSK communication; scalable transceiver designs; temporal windowing; Erbium; Modulation; Optical filters; Optical sensors; Optical transmitters; Sensitivity; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
