10 Gb/s uncompensated transmission in transparent optical metropolitan area networks using electroabsorption modulators over negative dispersion fiber

Author

Roudas, I. ; Lascar, N.M. ; Kruse, A.E. ; Hallock, B.S. ; Chowdhury, D.Q. ; Vodhanel, R.S. ; Antoniades, N. ; Tomkos, Ioannis ; Sharma, Mukesh

Author_Institution

Photonic Res. & Test Center, Corning Inc., Somerset, NJ, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

11-11 May 2001

Firstpage

544

Lastpage

545

Abstract

Summary form only given. Integrated electroabsorption modulator-DFB lasers (EA-DFBs) are attractive candidates for 10 Gb/s transmission due to their low cost, compact size, high output power, and good extinction ratio. This paper presents, for the first time, a theoretical and experimental study of the performance of EA-DFBs for WDM 10 Gb/s NRZ transmission in transparent optical metropolitan area networks using negative dispersion fiber. In the simulation, a phenomenological model of the EA-DFBs based on measurements of the absorption and the alpha parameter as a function of the applied reverse bias voltage is used.

Keywords

distributed feedback lasers; electro-optical modulation; electroabsorption; metropolitan area networks; optical fibre networks; optical solitons; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; Q-factor; WDM NRZ transmission; electroabsorption modulators; eye-closure penalty; integrated electroabsorption modulator-DFB lasers; negative dispersion fiber; nonlinear affects; phenomenological model; time-resolved chirp waveforms; transparent optical MAN; uncompensated transmission; Costs; Extinction ratio; Laser theory; Metropolitan area networks; Optical fiber networks; Optical modulation; Optical signal processing; Power generation; Power lasers; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO '01. Technical Digest. Summaries of papers presented at the Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-662-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2001.948149

Filename

948149