Direct 10-Gb/s Modulation of a Single-Section RSOA in PONs With High Optical Budget

Author

Schrenk, Bernhard ; De Valicourt, Guilhem ; Omella, Mireia ; Lazaro, Jose A. ; Brenot, Romain ; Prat, Josep

Author_Institution

Univ. Politec. de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain

Volume

22

Issue

6

fYear

2010

fDate

3/15/2010 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

392

Lastpage

394

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate 10-Gb/s operation of a reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (RSOA) for data transmission in passive optical networks, with optical power budgets of up to 28 dB. Besides a passive adaptation for the electrooptical response of the semiconductor device, neither active electronic equalization nor optical offset filtering was applied to enhance the modulation bandwidth of the RSOA. Error-free transmission without using error correcting codes can be obtained even for low RSOA input power values of -20 dBm.

Keywords

optical fibre networks; optical modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; active electronic equalization; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; data transmission; electrooptical response; error-free transmission; modulation bandwidth enhancement; optical communication terminal; optical fiber communication; optical offset filtering; passive optical networks; reflective semiconductor optical amplifier; semiconductor device; Optical communication terminals; optical fiber communication; optical modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2009.2039871

Filename

5378618