Chirp Reduction in Directly Modulated Multi-Electrode RSOA Devices in Passive Optical Networks
Valicourt, G.
; Pommereau, F.
; Poingt, F.
; Lamponi, M.
; Duan, G. H.
;
Violas, M.
; Brenot, R.
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters Vol. 22, Nº 19, pp. 1425 - 1427, October, 2010.
ISSN (print): 1041-1135
ISSN (online): 1941-0174
Scimago Journal Ranking: 1,46 (in 2010)
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/LPT.2010.2062496
Abstract
We demonstrate that the use of an optimized bi-electrode reflective semiconductor optical amplifier as remote modulator reduces the chirp. Our simulation shows that the chirp reduction is due to the carrier density profile in multi-electrode reflective semiconductor optical amplifiers. As a result of the chirp reduction, penalties for transmission are reduced from 6 to 4.5 dB on standard fiber at 2.5 Gb/s over 50 km. Using tri-electrode devices, a penalty of 3 dB is obtained for the same transmission conditions.
