Title :
Coherent optical communication with injection-locked high-power semiconductor laser array
Author :
Lucente, Marco ; Kintzer, E.S. ; Alexander, S.B. ; Fujimoto, J.G. ; Chan, Vincent W. S.
Author_Institution :
MIT Lincoln Lab., Lexington, MA, USA
Abstract :
Heterodyne FSK communication at 110 Mbit/s is demonstrated with an injection-locked high-power 20-stripe semiconductor laser array. It is shown that a high-power (>300 mW) coherent optical transmitter can be constructed without penalty in bit error rate performance.
Keywords :
digital communication systems; frequency shift keying; laser mode locking; optical communication equipment; optical links; semiconductor junction lasers; transmitters; 110 Mbit/s; 300 mW; BER; bit error rate performance; coherent optical transmitter; digital transmission; heterodyne FSK communication; high-power; injection-locked; laser transmitter; optical communication; semiconductor laser array;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19890746
