Generation of RZ-AMI using a widely tuneable modulated grating Y-branch chirp managed laser

Author

Zheng, Xueyan ; Mahgerefteh, Daniel ; Matsui, Yasuhiro ; Ye, Xiong ; Bu, Vincent ; McCallion, Kevin ; Xu, Haitao ; Deutsch, Michael ; Ereifej, Heider ; Lewén, Robert ; Wesström, Jan-Olof ; Schatz, Richard ; Rigole, Pierre-Jean

Author_Institution

Finisar Corp., Wilmington, MA, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

21-25 March 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

A 10 Gb/s RZ-AMI format is generated using a 45 nm tunable Modulated-Grating Y-branch Chirp Managed Laser (CML) with an optical delay line interferometer (DLI), achieving +/- 800 ps/nm dispersion tolerance window.

Keywords

chirp modulation; diffraction gratings; distributed feedback lasers; laser tuning; light interferometry; optical delay lines; optical dispersion; optical modulation; Y-branch chirp managed laser; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; dispersion tolerance window; optical delay line interferometer; return-to-zero alternate mark inversion; wavelength 45 nm; widely tuneable modulated grating; Chirp modulation; Fiber nonlinear optics; Frequency modulation; Gratings; Laser tuning; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical transmitters; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-884-1

Type

conf

Filename

5465413