Abstract
We investigateon a two-fiber short-reach self-homodyne coherent transmission system without optical amplification,where the same transmission laser is used to generate a modulated signal carrying useful data and a continuous wave signal, which serves as a local oscillator at the receiver side. Target of the work is to determine by experiments and theoretical models under which conditions DFB lasers can be used instead of more expensive ECL lasers. After careful characterization of lasers phase noise in terms of linewidth as a function of the mismatch between the optical paths of the signal and of the local oscillator, the performance of two laser technologies is investigated in the proposed transmission setup, showing that commercial DFB laser can be used, provided that the optical path mismatch between the two fibers is kept below 1.8 m for 28
$GBaud$
PM-QPSK and 0.8 m for PM-16QAM modulation format in combination with a soft-decision forward error correction algorithm. After an experimental demonstration, we theoretically investigate the scalability laws of the proposed systems in different configuration flavours.
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