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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2001. ECOC '01. 27th European Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6705-7
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2001.989654
