Enhanced performance of uncooled strongly-gain-coupled MQW DFB lasers in 10 Gb/s link applications

Author

Yang, S. ; Williams, K. ; Penty, R.V. ; White, I.H. ; Wood, I. ; White, J.K.

Author_Institution

Centre for Commun. Res., Bristol Univ., UK

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

124

Abstract

It is shown that an uncooled DFB laser with a strong gain-coupled grating shows enhanced link performance when compared with an otherwise identical index coupled laser. Transmission penalty improvements of as much as 3 dB are predicted from simulation at 10 Gb/s rates even at high temperature of 90 degrees over a 20 km SMF link. These simulations are verified by comparison with experiment.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; diffraction gratings; distributed feedback lasers; gallium arsenide; indium compounds; optical transmitters; quantum well lasers; 10 Gbit/s; 20 km; InGaAsP; InGaAsP strained multiple quantum wells; SMF link; enhanced link performance; eye patterns; graded index separate confinement heterostructure; simulation; strong gain-coupled grating; transmission penalty improvements; uncooled strongly-gain-coupled MQW DFB lasers; Circuit simulation; Gratings; Laser modes; Laser theory; MOCVD; Optical coupling; Performance gain; Predictive models; Quantum well devices; Temperature;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6705-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECOC.2001.988848

Filename

988848