Tunable Chirp Managed Laser

Author

Mahgerefteh, Daniel ; Matsui, Yasuhiro ; Zheng, Xueyan ; Chen, Hongmin ; Zhou, Jianying ; Deutsch, Michael ; Larosa, Greg ; McCallion, Kevin ; Fan, Zhencan Frank ; Tayebati, Parviz ; Yoffe, Gideon ; Zou, Sarah ; Emanuel, Mark ; Rishton, Steve A. ; Hong, X

Author_Institution

AZNA-FINISAR, Wilmington

Volume

20

Issue

2

fYear

2008

Firstpage

108

Lastpage

110

Abstract

We demonstrate a compact tunable chirp managed laser (CML) comprising a radio-frequency switch, a directly modulated distributed feedback laser array, a microelectromechanical systems mirror, and an optical filter and obtain error-free transmission performance over 30 nm at 10.7 Gb/s up to 200 km without electrical dispersion compensation (EDC) or optical dispersion compensation. Transmission distance is stretched to 300 km over the same wavelength range by adding a standard EDC to the receiver.

Keywords

chirp modulation; distributed feedback lasers; laser tuning; micro-optomechanical devices; micromirrors; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical filters; optical modulation; semiconductor laser arrays; semiconductor switches; bit rate 10.7 Gbit/s; chirp managed laser; directly modulated laser array; distance 200 km; distance 300 km; distributed feedback laser array; error-free transmission; microelectromechanical systems mirror; optical filter; optical receiver; radiofrequency switch; standard electrical dispersion compensation; tunable laser; Chirp; Distributed feedback devices; Laser feedback; Optical arrays; Optical filters; Optical receivers; Optical switches; Radio frequency; Radio spectrum management; Tunable circuits and devices; AM–FM conversion; FM–AM conversion; amplitude modulation (AM); bandpass filter; chirp; direct modulation; distributed feedback (DFB) lasers; frequency modulation (FM);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2007.912556

Filename

4427292