• DocumentCode
    891762
  • Title

    Improvement of directly modulated diode-laser pulses using an optical delay interferometer

  • Author

    Wong, C.S. ; Tsang, H.K.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China
  • Volume
    16
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2004
  • Firstpage
    632
  • Lastpage
    634
  • Abstract
    An optical delay interferometer (ODI) is proposed to compensate the signal distortion in a directly modulated distributed feedback laser diode. Experiments with an ODI demonstrate improvement in pulse shape by suppressing pulse overshoot in directly modulated lasers. The power penalty is decreased by 1 dB. Numerical simulations for the waveform compensation agree with the experimental results.
  • Keywords
    compensation; distributed feedback lasers; electro-optical modulation; light interferometers; optical communication equipment; optical delay lines; optical pulse shaping; semiconductor lasers; ODI; directly modulated distributed feedback laser diode; optical delay interferometer; pulse overshoot suppression; signal distortion compensation; waveform compensation; Delay; Diodes; Distributed feedback devices; Optical distortion; Optical feedback; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical pulse shaping; Optical pulses; Pulse modulation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1041-1135
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LPT.2003.823098
  • Filename
    1266514