Supercontinuum source based on an electroabsorption modulated laser for long distance DWDM transmission

L. Boivin; S. Taccheo; C.R. Doerr; L.W. Stulz; R. Monnard; R. Monnard; W. Lin; W. Lin; W.C. Fang; W.C. Fang

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2000),
paper CTuG6

Supercontinuum source based on an electroabsorption modulated laser for long distance DWDM transmission

L. Boivin, S. Taccheo, C.R. Doerr, L.W. Stulz, R. Monnard, W. Lin, and W.C. Fang

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2000

San Francisco, California United States
7–11 May 2000
ISBN: 1-55752-634-6

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L. Boivin, S. Taccheo, C. R. Doerr, L. W. Stulz, R. Monnard, W. Lin, and W. C. Fang, "Supercontinuum source based on an electroabsorption modulated laser for long distance DWDM transmission," in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, S. Brueck, R. Fields, M. Fejer, and F. Leonberger, eds., OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2000), paper CTuG6.

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Abstract

Dense wavelength-division multiplexed (DWDM) transmitters based on spectrumslicing of supercontinuum (SC) light have attracted renewed interest recently.^1–3 So far, all transmission experiments with SC-DWDM sources have used actively mode-locked lasers to seed the supercontinuum, raising concerns about the stability and the practicality of these systems. Picosecond seed pulses can however also be obtained from a DFB laser using a variety of techniques.^4–10 In this paper, we describe for example a 40-channel 400 Gbit/s SC-DWDM transmitter where seed pulses are obtained from an electroabsorption-modulated DFB laser (EML). We demonstrate the error- free transmission of all channels over 7 spans (544 km) of standard single-mode fiber. To our knowledge, this is the first system experiment using a mode-locked-laser-free SC-DWDM transmitter.

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