Filter concatenation penalties for 10-Gb/s chirped transmitters suitable for WDM metropolitan area networks

Author

Tomkos, Ioannis ; Rhee, June-Koo ; Iydroose, Pakir ; Hesse, Robert ; Boskovic, Aleksandra ; Vodhanel, Rich

Author_Institution

Photonics Res. & Test Center, Corning Inc., Somerset, NJ, USA

Volume

14

Issue

4

fYear

2002

fDate

4/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

564

Lastpage

566

Abstract

The impact of filter concatenation effects on the performance of wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) metropolitan area transparent optical networks utilizing cost-effective 10-Gb/s transmitters is investigated with recirculating loop experiments. We considered directly modulated lasers and electroabsorption modulator integrated distributed feedback WPM lasers (electroabsorption-distributed feedback) as cost-effective 10-Gb/s transmitters. The filter concatenation performance for thin-film multilayer interference filters designed for dense WDM networks with both 200- and 100-GHz channel spacing is studied.

Keywords

chirp modulation; distributed feedback lasers; electro-optical filters; electro-optical modulation; interference filters; metropolitan area networks; optical fibre networks; optical transmitters; wavelength division multiplexing; 10 Gbit/s; Q-factor penalty; WDM metropolitan area networks; chirped transmitters; concatenation-induced Q-penalties; cost-effective transmitters; directly modulated lasers; electroabsorption modulator integrated DFB lasers; filter concatenation penalties; four-channel multiplexer demultiplexer pair; frequency chirp; pseudorandom bit sequence; recirculating loop; thin-film multilayer interference filters; transparent optical networks; Chirp modulation; Distributed feedback devices; Laser feedback; Optical feedback; Optical fiber networks; Optical filters; Optical transmitters; Transistors; Urban areas; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.992612

Filename

992612