• DocumentCode
    562044
  • Title

    White noise filtered C-band tunable laser for coherent transmission systems

  • Author

    Ayotte, S. ; Costin, F. ; Brochu, G. ; Picard, M.J. ; Babin, A. ; Pelletier, F. ; Liu, X. ; Chandrasekhar, S.

  • Author_Institution
    TeraXion, Québec, QC, Canada
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    4-8 March 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    The white frequency noise of a C-band tunable laser is suppressed significantly by optical filtering with a multi-channel ultra-narrowband fiber Bragg grating. This noise suppression is shown to improve the performance of 5-Gbaud PDM-64QAM by 1.7 dB.
  • Keywords
    Bragg gratings; interference suppression; laser noise; laser tuning; light coherence; optical fibres; optical filters; optical transmitters; white noise; C-band tunable laser; PDM-64QAM; coherent transmission systems; multichannel ultranarrowband fiber Bragg grating; noise suppression; optical filtering; white frequency noise; Laser noise; Optical attenuators; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical polarization;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
  • Conference_Location
    Los Angeles, CA
  • ISSN
    pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0262-3
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6192027