Title :
Cascaded injection of Fabry-Perot lasers for improved performance in ASE seeded WDM PONs
Author :
Ning Cheng ; Chand, Naresh ; Effenberger, Frank
Author_Institution :
Adv. Technol. Dept., Huawei Technol., Santa Clara, CA, USA
Abstract :
Cascaded injection of Fabry-Perot lasers is proposed for improved performance in ASE seeded WDM PONs. Experimental results demonstrated better than 10dB improvement in power budget margin when ASE injection power is low.
Keywords :
laser mode locking; optical communication equipment; passive optical networks; superradiance; wavelength division multiplexing; ASE injection power; ASE seeded WDM PON; Fabry-Perot lasers; cascaded injection; power budget margin; Laser mode locking; Passive optical networks; Power lasers; Quantum cascade lasers; Sensitivity; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0262-3
