Equivalent optical bandwidth of reflective electro-absorption modulator based optical source with a broadband seed light for a 2.5 Gb/s and beyond signal transmission

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Abstract

The impact of equivalent optical bandwidth on the performance of a system using a reflective electroabsorption modulator (R-EAM) based optical source has been experimentally evaluated with signals operating at 2.5 Gb/s and beyond. The equivalent optical bandwidth of our source with a broadband seed light was simply adjusted by using a bandwidth tunable optical filter. From the measurements, we have estimated the required equivalent optical bandwidth of our source for an error-free transmission (@ bit-error-rate of 10-12) and a forward error correction (FEC) threshold of 2 × 10-4.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)371-375
Number of pages5
JournalJournal of the Optical Society of Korea
Volume19
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2015

Keywords

  • Broadband light source
  • Passive optical network
  • Reflective electro-absorption modulator
  • Wavelength division multiplexing

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