10Gb/s Low-Cost Directly Modulated Multi-Electrode Laser with Suppressed Thermal Wavelength Drift for Burst-Mode Upstream Transmission in TWDM-PONs
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Porto, Stefano; van Veen, Doutje; Houtsma, Vincent; Basavanhally, Nagesh; Bolle, Cris; Schmuck, Harald; Townsend, Paul D.; Earnshaw, Mark; Pfeiffer, Thomas
- Source
- 2018 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exposition (OFC) Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exposition (OFC), 2018. :1-3 Mar, 2018
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Lasers
Optical fibers
Electrodes
Optical filters
Modulation
Bandwidth
Wavelength division multiplexing
- Language
We report on a novel 10Gb/s low-cost multi-electrode DML employed as a very wavelength stable burst-mode source for upstream TWDM-PONs. 10X wavelength drift reduction is achieved compared to conventional DMLs enabling transmission on 100GHz grid.