DocumentCode
843955
Title
Study of long-wavelength VCSEL-VCSEL injection locking for 2.5-Gb/s transmission
Author
Chang, Chih-Hao ; Chrostowski, Lukas ; Chang-Hasnain, Connie J. ; Chow, Weng W.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA
Volume
14
Issue
11
fYear
2002
Firstpage
1635
Lastpage
1637
Abstract
We demonstrate an improvement in transmission performance when an L-band VCSEL, directly modulated at 2.5 Gb/s, is injection-locked by relatively low injected optical power from another VCSEL. The improvement is attributed to a reduction in chirp.
Keywords
electro-optical modulation; laser mode locking; optical transmitters; semiconductor lasers; surface emitting lasers; 2.5 Gbit/s; L-band VCSEL; chirp reduction; directly modulated; injection-locked; long-wavelength VCSEL-VCSEL injection locking; low injected optical power; transmission performance; Chirp modulation; Injection-locked oscillators; Laser noise; Laser theory; Optical attenuators; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical noise; Power lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1041-1135
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/LPT.2002.803903
Filename
1042029
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