Demonstration of long-wavelength directly modulated VCSEL transmission using SOAs

Author

Chrostowski, Lukas ; Chang, Chih-Hao ; Stone, Rob ; Chang-Hasnain, Connie J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA

Volume

14

Issue

9

fYear

2002

Firstpage

1369

Lastpage

1371

Abstract

The authors demonstrate the viability of high-performance vertical cavity surface emitting lasers transmission with semiconductor optical amplifiers as a low-cost alternative to distributed-feedback erbium-doped fiber amplifier systems. They study the effect of the optical amplifier noise figure on metro networks.

Keywords

laser noise; metropolitan area networks; optical fibre networks; optical modulation; optical transmitters; quantum well lasers; semiconductor optical amplifiers; surface emitting lasers; InAlGaAs-InAlAs; InAlGaAs-InAlAs bottom DBRs; InGaAs; InGaAs multiple quantum well active region; InP; InP substrate; SOAs; booster amplifiers; long-wavelength directly modulated VCSEL transmission; metro networks; optical amplifier noise figure; semiconductor optical amplifiers; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser noise; Optical fiber networks; Optical modulation; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Surface emitting lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2002.801598

Filename

1032383