Dispersion-penalty-free transmission over 130-km standard fiber using a 1.55-μm, 10-Gb/s integrated EA/DFB laser with low-extinction ratio and negative chirp

Author

Park, Y.K. ; Nguyen, T.V. ; Morton, P.A. ; Johnson, J.E. ; Mizuhara, O. ; Jeong, J. ; tzeng, L.D. ; Yeates, P.D. ; Fullowan, T. ; Sciortino, P.F. ; Sergent, A.M. ; Tsang, W.T. ; Yadvish, R.D.

Author_Institution

Bell Labs., Lucent Technol., Breinigsville, PA, USA

Volume

8

Issue

9

fYear

1996

Firstpage

1255

Lastpage

1257

Abstract

Transmission performance of a 10-Gb/s integrated electroabsorption modulator/DFB laser has been evaluated in terms of the eye margin degradation and the receiver sensitivity penalty caused by the chromatic dispersion in the standard (non-DSF) fiber. Combination of low extinction ratio (/spl epsi/=5 dB) and negative chirp (/spl Delta/v=-0.01 nm) operation allows 10-Gb/s transmission over 130-km standard fiber without any dispersion penalty in receiver sensitivity (for 10/sup -9/ BER) and with a 7% eye margin for 10/sup -15/ BER.

Keywords

distributed feedback lasers; electro-optical modulation; electroabsorption; errors; integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; optical transmitters; semiconductor lasers; sensitivity; /spl mu/m 10-Gb/s integrated EA/DFB laser; 10 Gbit/s; 130 km; BER; Gb/s transmission; bit error rate; chromatic dispersion; dispersion-penalty-free transmission; electroabsorption modulator; eye margin degradation; km standard fiber; low extinction ratio; low-extinction ratio; negative chirp; receiver sensitivity; receiver sensitivity penalty; standard non-DSF fiber; Bit error rate; Chirp modulation; Chromatic dispersion; Degradation; Extinction ratio; Fiber lasers; Optical signal processing; Optical transmitters; Pulse amplifiers; Radio transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.531854

Filename

531854