850-nm VCSEL Transmission Over Standard Single-Mode Fiber Using Fiber Mode Filter

Author

Tian, Zhaobing ; Chen, Chen ; Plant, David V.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montréal, QC, Canada

Volume

24

Issue

5

fYear

2012

fDate

3/1/2012 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

368

Lastpage

370

Abstract

We report on a novel fiber mode filter consisting of an LP₁₁ spatial mode rotator and an LP₁₁/LP₀₁ mode coupler to mitigate 850-nm modal dispersion over standard single-mode fibers (SMF-28). We demonstrate 10-Gb/s error-free transmission over 1 km of SMF-28 fiber using directly modulated vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers and we measure a 3.3-dB reduction in the received optical power required to achieve a bit-error-ratio of 10^-12 when compared to transmission over 800 m of OM3 multimode fiber.

Keywords

light transmission; optical fibre couplers; optical fibre dispersion; optical filters; surface emitting lasers; OM3 multimode fiber; SMF-28; VCSEL transmission over standard single-mode fiber; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; coupler; distance 1 km; distance 800 m; error-free transmission; fiber mode filter; modal dispersion; spatial mode rotator; vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers; wavelength 850 nm; Couplers; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fiber polarization; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Beam propagation method; linear polarization mode; mode filter; vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2011.2179641

Filename

6104103