1. Tolerance to Optical Feedback of 10 GBPs Quantum-Dash Based Lasers Emitting at 1.55 μm
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S. Azouigui, Beatrice Dagens, Alain Accard, Gilles Patriarche, Francois Lelarge, A. Martinez, Frédéric Grillot, J.-G. Provost, A. Ramdane, and Q. Zou
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Materials science ,Relative intensity noise ,business.industry ,Laser ,law.invention ,Laser linewidth ,Optics ,Quantum dot laser ,law ,Bit error rate ,Return loss ,Optoelectronics ,Stimulated emission ,business ,Coherence (physics) - Abstract
Tolerance to optical feedback is investigated on quantum-dash based lasers emitting at 1.55 μm on both static and dynamic regimes. The onset of coherence collapse regime is experimentally determined using three criteria: optical spectrum broadening, relative intensity noise increase and bit error rate degradation. In spite of a relatively high linewidth enhancement factor (αH˜4.5), a -32 dB onset of coherence collapse corresponding to -24 dB maximum optical return loss tolerance from the system was achieved at 10 Gbps rate.
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- 2007