Title :
Demonstration of long-wavelength directly modulated VCSEL transmission using SOAs
Author :
Chrostowski, Lukas ; Chang, Chih-Hao ; Stone, Rob ; Chang-Hasnain, Connie J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA
Abstract :
The authors demonstrate the viability of high-performance vertical cavity surface emitting lasers transmission with semiconductor optical amplifiers as a low-cost alternative to distributed-feedback erbium-doped fiber amplifier systems. They study the effect of the optical amplifier noise figure on metro networks.
Keywords :
laser noise; metropolitan area networks; optical fibre networks; optical modulation; optical transmitters; quantum well lasers; semiconductor optical amplifiers; surface emitting lasers; InAlGaAs-InAlAs; InAlGaAs-InAlAs bottom DBRs; InGaAs; InGaAs multiple quantum well active region; InP; InP substrate; SOAs; booster amplifiers; long-wavelength directly modulated VCSEL transmission; metro networks; optical amplifier noise figure; semiconductor optical amplifiers; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Laser noise; Optical fiber networks; Optical modulation; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission; Surface emitting lasers; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2002.801598
