Title :
Overcoming the effect of cycle slips caused by low frequency noise from monolithic tunable lasers
Author :
Huynh, Tam N. ; Barry, Liam P.
Author_Institution :
Rince Inst., Dublin City Univ., Dublin, Ireland
Abstract :
We investigate cycle slip effects of monolithic tunable lasers in a 10.7 Gbaud QPSK system employing feedback or feed-forward phase tracking algorithms. Experimental results demonstrate an increased probability of cycle slip due to low frequency noise in SGDBR lasers.
Keywords :
lasers; optical communication; quadrature phase shift keying; QPSK system; SGDBR lasers; cycle slips effect; feed-forward phase tracking algorithms; monolithic tunable lasers; Bit error rate; Laser feedback; Optical noise; Phase noise; Phase shift keying;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-5575-2994-7
DOI :
10.1364/OFC.2014.W4K.5
