Title :
Phase noise of widely-tunable SG-DBR laser
Author :
Nakagawa, Sachiko ; Fish, Gregory ; Dahl, A. ; Koh, P. ; Schow, Clint ; Mack, M. ; Wang, Lingfeng ; Yu, Rong
Author_Institution :
Agility Commun., Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Abstract :
The measured phase noise of a widely-tunable SG-DBR laser exhibits white high-frequency noise and low-frequency nonwhite components. The RIN after transmission through fiber indicates that white noise dominantly determines the transmission performance.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; distributed Bragg reflector lasers; laser noise; laser tuning; noise measurement; optical fibre communication; optical variables measurement; phase noise; white noise; low-frequency nonwhite components; phase noise; relative intensity noise; white high-frequency noise; widely-tunable sampled grating-DBR laser; Fiber lasers; Frequency; Laser noise; Noise measurement; Optical noise; Phase measurement; Phase noise; Semiconductor device noise; Semiconductor lasers; White noise;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference, 2003. OFC 2003
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-746-6
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2003.1248341