Abstract
We experimentally demonstrate the use of low-cost Fabry-Pérot laser diodes (FP-LDs) injected with spectrum-sliced beams from our proposed, depolarized, high-power, continuous-wave (CW) supercontinuum (SC) for upstream transmission in a wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) passive optical network. A ∼500-mW CW SC with a ∼130-nm bandwidth is obtained from a narrowband, amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) seed of a pumped erbium fiber by nonlinear effects such as modulation instability and stimulated Raman scattering in a highly nonlinear optical fiber. Through measurements of relative intensity noise at various wavelengths, it is shown that our spectrum-sliced SC offers the same performance as the spectrum-sliced erbium ASE. Error-free 25-km upstream transmission for six WDM signals generated from the CW SC-injected FP-LDs, is readily achieved at 1.25 Gb/s.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2108-2110 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | IEEE Photonics Technology Letters |
Volume | 18 |
Issue number | 20 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 15 Oct 2006 |
Keywords
- Access network
- Fabry-Pérot laser
- Light sources
- Passive optical network (PON)
- Supercontinuum (SC)