Using optical injection of Fabry-Perot lasers for high-speed access in optical telecommunications

Quoc Thai Nguyen (1) , Pascal Besnard (1) , Laurent Bramerie (1) , Alexandre Shen (2) , Alexandre Garreau (2) , Olivier Vaudel (1) , Christophe Kazmierski (2) , Guang-Hua Duan (2) , Jean-Claude Simon (1)

1 FOTON - Fonctions Optiques pour les Technologies de l'informatiON
2 III-V Lab - Alcatel-Thalès III-V lab

In this paper we present our recent works on optical injection of Fabry-Perot laser diode for application in access networks. The injection-locked Fabry-Perot laser diode is used as low-cost colorless transmitters for high-speed optical access exploiting wavelength-division-multiplexing technology. The modification of main characteristics of Fabry-Perot laser such as spectral properties, noise and modulation is shown in injection-locking regime. The strong dependence of these properties onto injection parameters is also given. Finally, the operation of injection-locked Fabry-Perot laser diode in a wavelength-division-multiplexed optical access system using a novel multi-wavelength master source based on quantum-dash mode-locked laser is presented and its transmission performances at 2.5Gb/s are reported.

Domaines: Optique / photonique

Quoc Thai Nguyen, Pascal Besnard, Laurent Bramerie, Alexandre Shen, Alexandre Garreau, et al.. Using optical injection of Fabry-Perot lasers for high-speed access in optical telecommunications. SPIE Photonics Europe 2010, Apr 2010, Bruxelles, Belgium. pp.77202D, ⟨10.1117/12.855133⟩. ⟨hal-00497263⟩