Multiwavelength ´single-mode´ erbium doped fiber laser for FFH-OCDMA testing

Author

Slavík, R. ; LaRochelle, S.

Author_Institution

Centre d´´Optique, Photonique et Lasers (COPL), Laval Univ., Que., Canada

fYear

2002

fDate

17-22 Mar 2002

Firstpage

245

Lastpage

246

Abstract

A single-mode multiwavelength EDF laser was realized for the first time in a ring cavity configuration. The laser exhibited flat response over 10 nm, with line spacing of 100 GHz and output power of 10 dBm. The laser was used to test a FFH-OCDMA telecommunication system with a rate of 10 Gchip/s and an equivalent transmission rate of 125 Gbit/s. A strong reduction of beat noise was observed. The results clearly show that a multiwavelength laser source is needed for high data rate FFH-OCDMA systems.

Keywords

code division multiple access; erbium; fibre lasers; laser cavity resonators; laser modes; laser noise; optical fibre communication; optical fibre testing; ring lasers; 125 Gbit/s; FFH-OCDMA telecommunication system test; FFH-OCDMA testing; beat noise reduction; equivalent transmission rate; flat response; high data rate FFH-OCDMA systems; line spacing; multiwavelength laser source; multiwavelength single-mode erbium doped fiber laser; output power; ring cavity configuration; single-mode multiwavelength EDF laser; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser mode locking; Laser modes; Optical fiber testing; Optical filters; Pump lasers; Ring lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 2002. OFC 2002

Print_ISBN

1-55752-701-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OFC.2002.1036335

Filename

1036335