bie era 296 + Thursday Afternoon Tam 1:30pm OFC '97 Technical Digest Low-chirp, 2.5 Gbit/s directly modulated fiber grating laser for WOM networks FAN. Timofeey, P. Bayel, V. Mikhailov, P. Gambinl, R. Wyatt RR. Kashyap,* M, Roberison,* RJ, Campbell,* LE. Midwinter, Department of Electronic Engineering: University College London, Torngton Place, London WCLE TIE, U.K: Ema: tin@eleceng.ucl.ac.uk Densely spaced wavelength-routed optical transportand.access networks will equie low-cost stable low-chrp narrow linewidth lasers operating fon precisely specified wavelengths. Directly modulated semiconductor lasers with short external fiber gratings (FGL)* can optimally satisfy these requleements. Although 10-Ghits externally modulated soliton transmission using a mode-locked PGL over 27,000 ken wa reported, ‘wavelength chirp and transmission performance of directly modulated GLs have not been investigated at bitrates higher than 185 Mbits for [RZ transmission? To this paper, we report on the very low chirp performance of directly modulated FGL at2.3 Gbitis, forthe st time, to our knowledge Transmssion over distances of 300 kan in standard fiber and >10,000 km in dispersion-shifted fiber was demonstrated, The laser consists ofa 430-pm GalnAsP/inP buried heterostructure ampli chip with an angled facet coupled toa lensed ber rating with a peak reflectivity of ~60% and a FWHM reilecton bandwidth of 19 ‘nm. The angled facet amplifier chip has avery low ron facet reflectivity ‘of <5 % 10-*. The effective length ofthe external resonator was mea sured tobe ~4 mm, The laser operated stabley on asngle-longitudinal- mode with a sde-mode suppression ratio >45 dB and low relative intersity noise <~145 €BVE2. The laser Finewidthwaslessthan 4 M2 atthe output power of 1 mW. The static wavelength chirp was dete- ‘mined fiom the spectzl postion ofthe dominant and suppressed (spon tancous background) modesat diffrent dcurrents(above threshold) 19 bbe <0.04 GHomA. The dynamic wavelength chiep shove in Fig (3) ‘was obtained fom the time-resolved measurements ofthe laser spectra ‘when the FL war diretly modulated by 2:5 Ghitls PRES signal (1 30mA; 40 mA) and DCbias current y= 1 ly. The observed chit in the FGI spectra is <0.04 nm (resolution limited) when 40 mA of mod- ‘lation signals applied, The FGL specta (1) without modulation, (2) ‘modulated by 12-GHe RF signal Ijaa = 30 mA), and (3) by NRZ 25 {Gbitfs PRBS signal (Iga = 30 mA) ate shown in Fig. 1(b), where avery smal asymmetry oflow- and high-requeney side-bands indicate a very low index of fequency modulation. The asymmetry increases ith higher modulation current (40 9 ql TOMI Fig. 1.6) Dynamic waeengh chop ofthe FGL when modulated by Ings = 3540 mat 28 i, fy = 1 ly (0) Dyan nein ee (0) ‘wiiout modulation, (2) when meted by ma 12 GH RF aigoal a8) By Sarna 25 Gh PRS, cir Ce) TMI Fig. 2._ Measured ye dgeam nd opt waver for 25 Gus2* “IPRS NEZ direct modulton fie teasnusson ore (4) Sk apd 315k Seanad hrc) hn and 10,74 in person sited ler Correspond {ng BER curve are shown n (©) 04 (8. Iyge = 21 MA ‘The PGL was modulated at 25 Gbit/s with an NRZPRBS (2"* —1) pattern ina reciculatng fiber oop consisting ofan optical amplifier and ~35 km of dspesion-shited (Corning DS) or ~39 km of standaed (Corning SME-28) fibre, Zero power penalty de wo dispersion in SMF was measured upto 117 km [Fig 2(b)]-BER of $10" was measured for distances up 1270 km, with some degradation over 300 km, as shown in Fig. 20) for 315 km. Measured eye diagrams and waveforms after tans- ‘mjssion dough 34 and 10,744 ken of DS ber are shoven in Fig 210), Showing a wide-opened eye. The corresponding bit-eror-ate (BER) curve (Fig 2(4)] shows penaly-fee transmission measured over 1100 km of DS fiber. Single-channel and WDM transmission results over longer distances wil be discussed atthe conference The dependence of laser linewidth, chitp, and BER oa the variation in the laser resonator round tip phase wll so be discussed. *BT Laboratories, Maresham Heath, Ipswich PS 7RE, UK. 1. DIM. Bed eral, Blecron. Let. 27, 1115 (1991): R. Kashyap tal, Election, Let 30,1065 (1998) 2. P.M,Morton etl, in Optica Fiber Communication Conference, Vol. 40f1994 OSA Technical Digest Series (Optial Society of America, ‘Washington, D.C, 1999), - 102 FEN. Timofeer eral in ECOC'95 Teal Digest, 1995, p. 7. PA Morton etal, IBEE Photon. Techno. Let. 7, 111 (1995), 5. RJ. Campbell eal, in BCOC95 Technical Digs 1995 . 545 Tama. ‘Spm, Widely tunable lasers for wavelength-division ‘multiplexed communtestions Beck Mason, SanLiang Lee, Mark E. Heimbuch, Lamy A. Coldren, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calfona, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, Calfomia 93106; Email: mason@eo|.ucsb.edu Recently developed very wide tuning range semiconductor lasers have potential fr seas souresin wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) {communication systems. The low-chiep and high-bandwidth module tion capabilities of sampled grating distabuted Brag refectr (DER) lasers sake them well suited for this application," SGDBR laces have been fibvicated with 62-nm ew tuning anges, 5 MHz inewidths, and 40 dB mode suppression ratios. In this paper, we investigate the data