• DocumentCode
    378450
  • Title

    Compact and fully-packaged fibre grating laser-based RZ pulse source for 40 Gbit/s OTDM transmission systems

  • Author

    Mikhailov, V. ; Bayvel, P. ; Lealman, I. ; Wyatt, R.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. London, UK
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    2001
  • Firstpage
    336
  • Abstract
    The first 40 Gbit/s OTDM experiment using a compact and fully-packaged actively mode-locked fibre grating laser (FGL) as an RZ pulse source is reported. A low transmission penalty was achieved as a result of high-quality, transform limited pulses.
  • Keywords
    diffraction gratings; fibre lasers; laser mode locking; optical fibre networks; optical pulse generation; optical transmitters; time division multiplexing; 40 Gbit/s; FGL; OTDM; RZ pulse source; actively mode-locked fibre grating laser; transform limited pulses; transmission penalty; Bandwidth; Fiber gratings; Fiber lasers; High speed optical techniques; Laser modes; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse measurements; Radio frequency; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
  • 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.2001.989654
  • Filename
    989654