Title :
An ASE-injected FP-LD-based return-to-zero transmitter for long-reach WDM-PONs
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
Abstract :
We propose and demonstrate a simple RZ transmitter based on incoherent-light-injected FP-LD which improves the dispersion tolerance by a factor of 1.5. Thanks to wide timing margin between adjacent bits, we successfully transmit incoherent 1.25-Gb/s signals over 45 km of SSMF.
Keywords :
optical fibre networks; optical fibres; optical transmitters; semiconductor lasers; wavelength division multiplexing; ASE-injected FP-LD-based return-to-zero transmitter; RZ transmitter; WDM-PON; amplified spontaneous emission; bit rate 1.25 Gbit/s; dispersion tolerance; distance 45 km; incoherent-light-injected FP-LD; return-to-zero transmitter; standard single-mode fiber; timing margin; wavelength- division-multiplexed passive optical networks; Bandwidth; Clocks; Crosstalk; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical signal processing; Optical transmitters; Passive optical networks;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-884-1
