Wideband wavelength tunable lasers are now beginning to play important roles in dense wavelength-division
multiplexing (DWDM) optical transmission systems, because these lasers can reduce the required number of
inventory lasers and inventory costs. They are also key components in the evolution towards future photonic
network systems, particularly in reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexing (ROADM) systems and optical
cross-connect (OXC) systems. However, before the tunable laser can be a viable alternative for the conventional
fixed wavelength laser (e.g. DFB laser) it should have the same characteristics over its entire tuning range.
Additionally, the device should only be marginally more expensive than its fixed counterpart. This paper reviews
our recent activities on the development of high performance full-band wavelength tunable lasers. Our approach
utilizes an external cavity configuration, which makes use of a liquid crystal (LC) tunable mirror. We
demonstrate high performance of an external cavity wavelength tunable laser (ECTL) with an intracavity etalon.
This ECTL module shows a tuning range of 45 nm, fiber-coupled output power of higher than 14 dBm with
SMSR of better than 59 dB, wavelength accuracy of +/-0.6 GHz, relative intensity noise (RIN) of better than -
150 dB/Hz, and linewidth of narrower than 1 MHz.
This paper reported that, using a directly modulated lasers (DMLs) with a ?/8 phase-shifted distributed feedback (DFB) grating, isolator-free 2.5-Gb/s transmission over 138-km non-dispersion-shifted fiber (NDSF) was demonstrated with ?20-dB external optical feedback. The power penalty was 1.7 dB for a bit error rate (BER) of 10-10. Further potential for their low chirp characteristics was also demonstrated by error-free transmission over 200 km without optical feedback. Uncooled transmission performance at 80°C was also investigated. A low power penalty of less than 1.0 dB for a BER of 10-10 was obtained in transmission over 60 km. The good experimental results are due to the characteristics of low chirp and optical feedback resistance that originate from the negative feedback effect of mirror loss (FEML) in ?/8 phase shifted DFB-LDs. Also discussed in this paper is the design of coupling coefficient ?L and of detuning ?? between oscillation wavelength and gain maximum since these parameters strongly affect the DMLs’ transmission characteristics.
This paper describes grating design of distributed feedback laser diodes (DFB-LDs) for use in metropolitan area and access networks and demonstrates improved performance of DFB-LDs with new gratin structures. Dynamic behaviors of DFB-LDs under the external optical feedback were analyzed for conventional uniform grating DFB-LDs and partially corrugated waveguide laser diodes (PC-LDs). A high-resistant characteristic against external optical feedback was achieved by PC-LD with optimized grating structure. The increase of RIN was suppressed to as low as -126 dB/Hz with the external optical feedback of -20 dB. It was also found that feedback effect of mirror loss (FEML) plays an important role in external optical feedback resistance. Furthermore, negative FEML, which suppresses relaxation oscillation, reduces transient chirp under high-bit-rate modulation. FEML is successfully controlled by adjusting phase shift value in phase-shifted DFB-LDs, and very low power penalty transmission was demonstrated by (lambda) /8 phase-shifted DFB-LDs. After 100-km transmissions, a power penalty of less than 1 dB within a wide extinction ratio region form 8.5 to 14.5 dB was demonstrated with 2.5 Gb/s direct modulation. These DFB-LDs with new grating structure is promising for intermediate transmission applications.
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