Title :
Transmission improvement of VCSEL at 2.5Gb/s under injection locking by another VCSEL
Author :
Chang, C.H. ; Chrostowski, L. ; Chang-Hasnain, C.J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrated the first VCSEL to VCSEL injection locking and its transmission performance improvement over standard SMF-28 fiber at 2.5 Gb/s. The required injection power from the source VCSEL is only 30 μW. Transmission improvement for injection locking is attributed to the chirp reduction of the injection locked VCSEL when the wavelength and power of the injected light are properly selected. This technique has the potential to provide a low cost and non-intrusive upgrade of existing transmission systems
Keywords :
error statistics; optical modulation; optical transmitters; surface emitting lasers; 2.5 Gbit/s; VCSEL to VCSEL injection locking; chirp reduction; digital modulation transmission system; directly modulated VCSEL; eye diagrams; frequency detuning; injection locked VCSEL; low cost upgrade; optical spectra; standard single-mode fiber; transmission performance improvement; transmission power penalty; Bit error rate; Injection-locked oscillators; Laser noise; Laser theory; Optical attenuators; Optical filters; Optical noise; Power lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2001. LEOS 2001. The 14th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7105-4
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2001.969021
