Components for 40 Gbit/s systems

Author

Ellis, A.D. ; Moodie, Dave G. ; McLaughlin, R. ; Chen, Xia ; Perrin, S.D. ; Rogers, D.C. ; Firth, R. ; O´Brien, S.P. ; Amos, S. ; Reid, Ian ; Ford, C.W. ; Garcia, F.C. ; Reed, Jeff ; Wyatt, R. ; Cannard, P. ; Barrell, A.H. ; Bhattacharya, Debajit ; Robert

Author_Institution

Corning Res. Centre, Ipswich, UK

Volume

1

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

261

Abstract

We have reported high power 40 Gbit/s electroabsorption modulators at 1550 nm and 1300 nm and their application to transmission over SMF-28. Time averaged output powers of up to 2.8 dBm were achieved with low dispersion penalty, allowing the generation of significant margin at 1550 nm, and 40-km loss limited transmission at 1310 nm. These results illustrate the huge potential for electroabsorption modulators in a wide variety of system applications including short reach, intermediate reach and dispersion managed systems.

Keywords

electro-optical modulation; electroabsorption; integrated optics; optical communication equipment; optical fibre dispersion; telecommunication network management; 1300 nm; 1310 nm; 1550 nm; 40 Gbit/s; 40 km; dispersion managed systems; high power Gbit/s electroabsorption modulators; intermediate reach; loss limited transmission; low dispersion penalty; short reach; system applications; time averaged output powers; Bit rate; Costs; Insertion loss; Optical fiber networks; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Optical wavelength conversion; Power generation; Stimulated emission; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2002. LEOS 2002. The 15th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7500-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2002.1134027

Filename

1134027