Generation of RZ-DPSK using a Chirp-Managed Laser (CML)
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Franklin, James; Kil, Luis; Mooney, David; Mahgerefteh, Daniel; Zheng, Xueyan; Matsui, Yasuhiro; McCallion, Kevin; Fan, Frank; Tayebati, Parviz
- Source
- OFC/NFOEC 2008 - 2008 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference Optical Fiber communication/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2008. OFC/NFOEC 2008. Conference on. :1-3 Feb, 2008
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Signal Processing and Analysis
Chirp modulation
Optical transmitters
Optical filters
Pulse modulation
Optical modulation
Fiber lasers
Phase modulation
High speed optical techniques
Optical receivers
Distributed feedback devices
- Language
We generate RZ-DPSK at 2.67 Gb/s using a directly modulated chirp-managed laser (CML), comprising a DFB laser and optical filter. The CML has comparable performance to a LiNbO 3 transmitter with separate phase-coding and pulse-carving modulators.