Uncooled DBR laser directly Modulated at 3.125 gb/s as athermal transmitter for low-cost WDM systems |
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Authors: | Yiran Liu Davies A.R. Ingham J.D. Penty R.V. White I.H. |
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Affiliation: | Photonic Syst. Group, Cambridge Univ., UK; |
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Abstract: | An uncooled three-section tunable distributed Bragg reflector laser is demonstrated as an athermal transmitter for low-cost uncooled wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) systems with tight channel spacing. A /spl plusmn/0.02-nm thermal wavelength drift is achieved under continuous-wave operation up to 70/spl deg/C. Dynamic sidemode suppression ratio of greater than 35 dB is consistently obtained under 3.125-Gb/s direct modulation over a 20/spl deg/C-70/spl deg/C temperature range, with wavelength variation of as low as /spl plusmn/0.2 nm. This indicates that more than an order of magnitude reduction in coarse WDM channel spacing is possible using this source. |
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