Data inversion and adjustable chirp in 10-Gbps directly-modulated injection-locked 1.55-μm VCSELs

Author

Zhao, Xiaoxue ; Zhang, Bo ; Christen, Louis ; Parekh, Devang ; Koyama, Fumio ; Hofmann, Werner ; Amann, Markus C. ; Willner, Alan E. ; Chang-Hasnain, Connie J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA

fYear

2008

fDate

4-9 May 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We demonstrate adjustable chirp of directly-modulated injection-locked VCSELs at 10-Gbps resulting from a novel data pattern inversion phenomenon, which leads to chromatic dispersion compensation and a 10X distance increase over standard single-mode fiber.

Keywords

chirp modulation; laser cavity resonators; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; optical transmitters; surface emitting lasers; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; chromatic dispersion compensation; data pattern inversion phenomenon; directly-modulated injection-locked VCSEL; single-mode fiber; Broadband amplifiers; Chirp modulation; Chromatic dispersion; High speed optical techniques; Optical fiber LAN; Optical modulation; Optical reflection; Optical transmitters; Petroleum; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; (060.4080) Modulation; (130.2035) Dispersion compensation; (140.3520) Lasers, injection-locked; (250.7260) VCSELs;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-859-9

Type

conf

Filename

4571555