First demonstration of dispersion limit improvement at 20 Gb/s with a Dual Electro-absorption Modulated Laser

Author

Khalil, Kamal ; Thomas, Abu ; Kamel, Michel ; Christelle, A. ; Guy, A. ; Christophe, K. ; Christophe, J. ; Philippe, Cussac ; Didier, E.

Author_Institution

Inst. TELECOM, TELECOM ParisTech, Paris, France

fYear

2012

fDate

4-8 March 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

The Dual Electro-absorption Modulated Laser (D-EML) is a transmitter technology based on integrated Electro-absorption Modulated Laser (EML) with dual independent-access modulation. The D-EML allows the adjustment of the laser and modulator chirp by controlling the amplitude modulation in order to enhance the transmission distance without increasing consumption, cost and complexity. We successfully demonstrate experimentally and by simulation an error-free 39.7-km transmission at 20 Gb/s in standard dispersion fiber without any compensation fiber using D-EML.

Keywords

amplitude modulation; distributed feedback lasers; electro-optical modulation; electroabsorption; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; D-EML; amplitude modulation; bit rate 20 Gbit/s; compensation fiber; dispersion limit improvement; distance 39.7 km; dual electroabsorption modulated laser; integrated electroabsorption modulated laser; modulator chirp; standard dispersion fiber; Bit error rate; Chirp; Dispersion; Fiber lasers; Frequency modulation;

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

6476542