10Gb/s low-cost directly modulated multi-electrode laser with suppressed thermal wavelength drift for burst-mode upstream transmission in TWDM-PONs

Porto, Stefano; van Veen, Doutje; Houtsma, Vincent; Basavanhally, Nagesh; Bolle, Cris; Schmuck, Harald; Townsend, Paul D.; Earnshaw, Mark; Pfeiffer, Thomas

10Gb/s low-cost directly modulated multi-electrode laser with suppressed thermal wavelength drift for burst-mode upstream transmission in TWDM-PONs

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Date

2018-06-14

Authors

Porto, Stefano

van Veen, Doutje

Houtsma, Vincent

Basavanhally, Nagesh

Bolle, Cris

Schmuck, Harald

Townsend, Paul D.

Earnshaw, Mark

Pfeiffer, Thomas

Publisher

Optical Society of America

Abstract

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.

Keywords

Lasers , Optical fibers , Electrodes , Optical filters , Modulation , Bandwidth , Wavelength division multiplexing

Citation

Porto, S., van Veen, D., Houtsma, V., Basavanhally, N., Bolle, C., Schmuck, H., Townsend, P. D., Earnshaw, M. and Pfeiffer, T. (2018) '10Gb/s low-cost directly modulated multi-electrode laser with suppressed thermal wavelength drift for burst-mode upstream transmission in TWDM-PONs', 2018 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exposition (OFC), San Diego, CA, USA, 11-15 March, Th1E.3 (3pp). Available at: https://www.osapublishing.org/abstract.cfm?uri=ofc-2018-Th1E.3 (Accessed: 17 September 2021)