Study of long-wavelength directly modulated VCSEL transmission using SOA amplifiers

Author

Chrostowski, L. ; Chang, C. Hwa ; Stone, R.J. ; Chang-Hasnain, Constance

Author_Institution

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

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

432

Abstract

We demonstrate the viability of high-performance WDM VCSEL transmission with semiconductor optical amplifiers as a low cost alternative to systems composed of DFB lasers with EDFA amplification. We study the use of Corning MetroCoro® fiber™ as a means of combating the dispersion effects resulting from the chirp of directly modulated lasers.

Keywords

optical communication equipment; optical modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; surface emitting lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; Corning MetroCoro fiber; EDFA; SOA amplifiers; WDM VCSEL transmission; directly modulated laser chirp; dispersion effects; distributed feedback lasers; erbium doped fiber amplifiers; long-wavelength directly modulated VCSEL transmission; semiconductor optical amplifiers; Chirp; Costs; Dispersion; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Fiber lasers; Optical amplifiers; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6705-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECOC.2001.989701

Filename

989701