16-channel×2.5 Gbit/s WDM source using an harmonically and passively modelocked Er,Yb fiber laser

Author

Mikulla, B. ; Leng, L. ; Sears, S. ; Arend, M. ; Bergman, K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Princeton Univ., NJ, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

1-4 Dec 1998

Firstpage

299

Abstract

We demonstrate a simple, compact, and efficient wideband WDM source for soliton or return-to-zero (RZ) transmission. The source generates 16 wavelength channels at 2.5 Gbit/sec spaced by 1.6 nm. Since the individual bits in the 2.5 bit/sec streams are short picosecond pulses further bandwidth utilization can be achieved by TDM techniques

Keywords

erbium; fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; laser mode locking; optical communication equipment; optical solitons; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; ytterbium; 1550 nm; 16-channel 2.5 Gbit/s WDM source; 2.5 Gbit/s; RZ transmission; TDM techniques; bandwidth utilization; harmonically passively modelocked Er,Yb fiber laser; return-to-zero transmission; short picosecond pulses; simple compact efficient wideband WDM source; soliton transmission; wavelength channels; Bandwidth; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Fiber lasers; Laser modes; Optical fiber communication; Optical propagation; Pulse amplifiers; Waveguide lasers; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1998. LEOS '98. IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4947-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1998.737849

Filename

737849