Impact of mode partition noise in free-running gain-switched Fabry-Perot laser for 2-dimensional OCDMA | Zendy

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Impact of mode partition noise in free-running gain-switched Fabry-Perot laser for 2-dimensional OCDMA

Author(s) -

Xu Wang,

Kam Tai Chan

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

optics express

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394

H-Index - 271

ISSN - 1094-4087

DOI - 10.1364/opex.12.003334

Subject(s) - optics , laser , fabry–pérot interferometer , bit error rate , broadband , laser diode , physics , semiconductor laser theory , computer science , telecommunications , decoding methods

Free-running gain-switched Fabry-Perot laser diode is an appropriate incoherent broadband optical source for incoherent 2-dimensional optical code division multiple access. However, the mode partition noise (MPN) in the laser seriously degrades performance. We derived a bit error rate (BER) expression in the presence of MPN using the power spectra of the laser. The theory agreed with the experimental results. There was a power penalty and BER floor due to the MPN in the laser. Therefore, this scheme should be operated with a sufficiently large number of modes. At least 9 modes should be used for error-free transmission at 1 Gbit/s for the laser we investigated in this work.

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