Demonstration of a 16×10 Gb/s long-haul transmitter with 50-GHz channel spacing using two multifrequency lasers

Author

Monnard, R. ; Srivastava, A.K. ; Doerr, C.R. ; Essiambre, R.-J. ; Joyner, C.H. ; Stulz, L.W. ; Zirngibl, M. ; Sun, Y. ; Sulhoff, J.W. ; Zyskin, U. ; Wolf, C.

Author_Institution

Bell Labs., Lucent Technol., Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

20-24 Sep 1998

Firstpage

193

Abstract

A 16-wavelength transmitter with 50-GHz channel spacing was built by interleaving 2 externally modulated single-mode 8-channel waveguide-grating-router multifrequency lasers. Error-free transmission at 10 Gb/s for all 16 channels was measured through 595 km of true-wave fiber

Keywords

diffraction gratings; electro-optical modulation; optical transmitters; telecommunication channels; telecommunication network routing; waveguide lasers; 10 Gbit/s; 16-wavelength transmitter; 595 km; GHz channel spacing; Gb/s long-haul transmitter; error-free transmission; externally modulated single-mode 8-channel waveguide-grating-router multifrequency laser; multifrequency lasers; true-wave fiber; Channel spacing; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical filters; Optical mixing; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Signal to noise ratio; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication, 1998. 24th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Madrid

Print_ISBN

84-89900-14-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECOC.1998.732498

Filename

732498