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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 371-375 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Journal of the Optical Society of Korea |
Volume | 19 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 2015 |
Keywords
- Broadband light source
- Passive optical network
- Reflective electro-absorption modulator
- Wavelength division multiplexing