Open AccessPerformance improvement of 10Gb/s direct modulation OFDM by optical injection using monolithically integrated discrete mode lasers
Author(s) -
Colm Browning,
Kai Shi,
Sylwester Latkowski,
Prince M. Anandarajah,
Frank Smyth,
Barry Cardiff,
Richard Phelan,
Liam P. Barry
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.19.00b289
Subject(s) - optics , laser , modulation (music) , materials science , optical communication , optoelectronics , physics , acoustics
Performance improvement of a directly modulated 10 Gb/s OFDM system by optical injection of monolithically integrated lasers is shown experimentally over differing fibre lengths. The modulation and optical injection is performed using monolithically integrated Discrete Mode lasers. It is shown that optical injection with this device reduces third order inter-modulation distortion by up to 10dB and this results in an improvement in system performance from above a forward error correction BER threshold of 1 × 10(-3) to significantly below it.