Abstract

Direct modulation of a laser source is often utilized in realizing optical fiber connections where the cost of the entire system must be kept at a low level. An undesired consequence of this choice is the onset of the laser frequency chirp effect, which is detrimental in the case of either digital or analog links, and must be evaluated with precision in order to perform an accurate design of the whole system. Various methods of evaluation of the chirp parameters have been proposed, and the choice among them is typically made on the basis of the laboratory equipment available at the moment. This paper adds a further element to the set of possible choices, since it presents a method for the evaluation of the adiabatic chirp factor in distributed feedback (DFB) laser sources, which exploits a simple interferometric scheme, guarantees low cost, and shows, at the same time, good accuracy of the results.

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