WDM-based passive optical network upstream transmission at 1.25 Gb/s using Fabry-Pérot laser diodes injected with spectrum-sliced, depolarized, continuous-wave supercontinuum source

Ju Han Lee, Chul Han Kim, Young Geun Han, Sang Bae Lee

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2108-2110
Number of pages3
JournalIEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume18
Issue number20
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Oct 2006

Keywords

  • Access network
  • Fabry-Pérot laser
  • Light sources
  • Passive optical network (PON)
  • Supercontinuum (SC)

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