An Automatic Wavelength Control Method of a Tunable Laser for a WDM-PON

We propose a novel automatic wavelength control method of a tunable laser for a wavelength-division-multiplexed passive optical network (WDM-PON). By sending a low-power amplified spontaneous emission light generated from a broadband light source (BLS) to a tunable laser through a wavelength-division multiplexer, we match the wavelength of the tunable laser to a peak transmission wavelength of the multiplexer. The deviation of the wavelength of the tunable laser was less than 0.05 nm from the center of the target channel. We demonstrate up to 10-Gb/s transmission in a WDM-PON by using the proposed method. We also show that system impairments induced by the BLS are negligible.