60 channel×3.6-Gb/s optical WDM transmitter using a multiwavelength modelocked semiconductor laser

Author

Mielke, Matthias ; Delfyett, Peter J.

Author_Institution

Center for Res. & Educ. in Opt. & Lasers, Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

713

Abstract

This summary describes a recent advance in the number of WDM channels that have been generated by a single semiconductor diode laser (SDL) transmitter. The multiwavelength SDL emits 100 ps return-to-zero (RZ) pulses in 60 discrete wavelength channels at a repetition rate of 898 MHz. The 60 WDM channels are spread over approximately 11 nm (centered near 830 nm), yielding a channel separation of 75 GHz. The 898 Mb/s signal is directed through a 1 × 4 OTDM multiplexer to increase the single channel bit rate to 3.592-Gb/s in order to match the SONET OC-48 protocol with ample room for overhead. This transmitter configuration thus produces an aggregate bit rate of 215-Gb/s (60 × 3.592-Gb/s) utilizing a single laser

Keywords

SONET; laser mode locking; optical transmitters; semiconductor optical amplifiers; wavelength division multiplexing; 215 Gbit/s; 3.592 Gbit/s; 830 nm; OTDM multiplexer; SONET OC-48 protocol; access networks; increased WDM channels; local area networks; multiwavelength laser cavity; multiwavelength modelocked semiconductor laser; optical WDM transmitter; return-to-zero pulses; semiconductor optical amplifier angle-stripe; single channel bit rate; spatial filters; temporal characteristics; Aggregates; Bit rate; Optical pulses; Optical transmitters; Protocols; SONET; Semiconductor diodes; Semiconductor lasers; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2001. LEOS 2001. The 14th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7105-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2001.969013

Filename

969013