Comparison on Injection-Locked Fabry–Perot Laser Diode With Front-Facet Reflectivity of 1% and 30% for Optical Data Transmission in WDM-PON System

Author

Lin, Gong-Ru ; Wang, Hai-Lin ; Lin, Gong-Cheng ; Huang, Yin-Hsun ; Lin, Yi-Hung ; Cheng, Tzu-Kang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

Volume

27

Issue

14

fYear

2009

fDate

7/15/2009 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2779

Lastpage

2785

Abstract

Externally amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) injection-locking characteristics and optical data transmission performances of a TO-56 can-packaged Fabry-Perot laser diode (FPLD) with 1% front-facet reflectivity are investigated using a wavelength-division-multiplexing passive-optical network (WDM-PON) system configured by an array-waveguide grating (AWG) based MUX/DMUX filters with channel spacing of 200 GHz. Quasi-single-mode output of such a nearly color-free weak-resonant-cavity FPLD with highest side-mode suppressing ratio of 31 dB is achieved with ASE injection-locking, providing a bit-error-rate (BER) of < 10^-13 at receiving power of -31 dBm and a power penalty of 0.5 dB after 20-km transmission in single-mode fiber with a bit rate up to 1.25 Gbit/s.

Keywords

diffraction gratings; optical communication equipment; optical fibre networks; semiconductor lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; TO-56 can-packaged Fabry-Perot laser diode; WDM-PON system; array waveguide grating; bit rate 1.25 Gbit/s; distance 20 km; externally amplified spontaneous emission; injection-locked Fabry-Perot laser diode; optical data transmission; single mode fiber; wavelength division multiplexing passive optical network; Amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) injection; Fabry–Perot laser diode (FPLD); dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM); fiber-to-the-home; optical network unit (ONU); passive optical network (PON);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2009.2016676

Filename

4895257