Title :
40-gb/s transmission over 25 km of negative-dispersion fiber using asymmetric narrow-band filtering of a commercial directly Modulated DFB laser
Author :
Yan, L.-S. ; Yu, C. ; Wang, Y. ; Luo, T. ; Paraschis, L. ; Shi, Y. ; Willner, A.E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng.-Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
fDate :
6/1/2005 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Using asymmetric narrow-band optical filtering to improve the response and reshape the optical spectrum of a commercial directly modulated distributed feedback laser, we demonstrate 40-Gb/s error-free transmission over 25-km negative dispersion fiber without dispersion compensation.
Keywords :
distributed feedback lasers; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical filters; optical modulation; 25 km; 40 Gbit/s; asymmetric narrow-band filtering; directly modulated DFB laser; dispersion compensation; distributed feedback laser; negative-dispersion fiber; optical spectrum reshaping; Distributed feedback devices; Fiber lasers; Filtering; Frequency conversion; Narrowband; Optical feedback; Optical fiber filters; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical transmitters; Direct modulation; dispersion; optical filter; optics communications;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2005.846618
