A dense WDM source for high spectral efficiency systems using comb generation and SG-DBR injection-locked laser filtering

Author

Silva, C.F.C. ; Seeds, Alwyn J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. London, UK

Volume

5

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

126

Abstract

Using absolute optical frequency referencing, an exact frequency synthesiser for dense WDM is reported, with widely tuneable sampled grating DBR lasers phase locked to one of the 64 optical carriers, 17.5 GHz spacing, generated by an amplified fibre loop comb generator.

Keywords

comb filters; diffraction gratings; distributed Bragg reflector lasers; frequency synthesizers; laser mode locking; laser tuning; optical filters; optical transmitters; semiconductor lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; DWDM transmitter; SG-DBR injection-locked laser filtering; absolute optical frequency referencing; amplified fibre loop comb generator; comb generation; dense WDM source; frequency synthesiser; high spectral efficiency systems; optical carriers; phase locked lasers; sampled grating DBR lasers; widely tuneable sampled grating DBR lasers; Fiber lasers; Filtering; Frequency synthesizers; Gratings; Laser tuning; Optical fiber filters; Optical filters; Stimulated emission; Tunable circuits and devices; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6705-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECOC.2001.989014

Filename

989014