Dual-wavelength distributed Bragg reflector semiconductor laser based on a composite resonant cavity

We report a monolithic integrated dual-wavelength laser diode based on a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) composite resonant cavity. The device consists of three sections, a DBR grating section, a passive phase section, and an active gain section. The gain section facet is cleaved to work as a laser cavity mirror. The other laser mirror is the DBR grating, which also functions as a wavelength filter and can control the number of wavelengths involved in the laser action. The reflection bandwidth of the DBR grating is fabricated to have an appropriate value to make the device work at the dual-wavelength lasing state. We adopt the quantum well intermixing (QWI) technique to provide low-absorption loss grating and passive phase section in the fabrication process. By tuning the injection currents on the DBR and the gain sections, the device can generate 0.596 nm-spaced dual-wavelength lasing at room temperature.     

PMD mitigation using 3R regeneration based on EAM with wavelength conversion

Polarization mode dispersion (PMD) mitigation is performed using an optical 3R (re-amplification, reshaping, re-timing) regenerator based on electro-absorption modulator (EAM) with wavelength conversion. System performance without and with 3R regeneration was separately studied by eye analysis and bit-error rate (BER) measurements. The signal quality was significantly improved by 3R regeneration under serious first order PMD (up to 40% of the bit interval) combined with second order PMD (up to about 520 ps2). The PMD mitigation margin of the proposed method is also investigated by measuring the sensitivity at BER 10-10. Further studies indicate that 3R regenerators have the potential to combat with the effects of PMD combined with polarization dependent loss (PDL) and polarization hole-burning (PHB).     

一种减少基于SOA的全光时钟提取码型效应的新方法

全光位时钟提取是3R全光再生的关键技术,本文针对利用基于半导体光放大器注入锁模激光器进行位时钟提取时的码型效应,提出一种利用非线性偏振旋转自稳幅效应减少码型效应的新方法,对40Gb/s的半导体光放大器注入锁模激光器位时钟提取,通过数值模拟计算证明,利用非线性偏振旋转可以有效地减少码型效应的影响.     

Theoretical Design of Fibre-Based Digital Autocorrelator for Completely Characterizing Ultrashort Pulses

A new idea to design fibre-based digital autocorrelation technique for completely characterizing ultrashort pulses is presented. Feasibility of the design is demonstrated by theory. The technique is found to promise minimized optical alignment requirements, compact configuration, high time resolution, and short measurement time.     

利用半导体光放大器进行光脉冲消基座的理论研究

提出了一种利用半导体光放大器(SOA)联合可调谐光滤波器进行高阶孤子压缩消基座的新方法.进行了详尽的理论分析和优化.数值计算表明,在一定条件下,这种方法能够在不展宽脉冲的前提下,对基座进行有效地抑制.     

Mitigation of signal quality degradation induced by PMD using synchronous modulation

In-line synchronous modulation as a way of mitigating the signal quality degradation induced by polar ization mode dispersion(PMD)was experimentally studied using 10-Gb/s return to zero signal.Bit error rate of the degraded signal and the synchronously modulated signal under the differential group delay(DGD)values of 10,20,34,and 70 ps was measured and compared.The experimental results showed that in-line synchronous modulation is useful to mitigate the signal quality degeneration induced by PMD.1-dB power penalty reduction was obtained even when the PMD was as high as 70％ of the bit interval.The limitation of method is also discussed.     

Novel approach to reduce the pattern effect in 10-Gb/s clock recovery

A Fabry-Perot(F-P)etalon and a semiconductor optical amplifier(SOA)were combined to preprocess thedata signals before clock recovery.With this technology in the 10-Gb/s clock recovery utilizing injectionmode-locked laser(IMLL)based on SOA,the amplitude fluctuation and timing jitters caused by thepattern effect in recovered clock pulses were greatly reduced,experimentally.It also demonstrated thatclock could be recovered from the very degraded signals.     

Dynamic PMD compensation in 40-Gb/s optical communication system

A 40-Gb/s optical time division multiplexing (OTDM) return-to-zero (RZ) transmission experiments including a dynamic polarization mode dispersion (PMD) compensation was reported. The dynamic PMD compensator is made up of two-stage four degrees of freedom (DOF). The first stage adopts polarization controller and fixed time-delayed line. The second stage is variable differential group delay (DGD) element. The PMD monitoring technique is based on degree of polarization (DOP) as error signal. A novel practical adaptive optimization algorithm was introduced in dynamic adaptive PMD compensation. The experimental results show that the performance of the PMD compensator is excellent for 40-Gb/s RZ transmission systems with the large DGD. With this compensator, a significant improvement of system performance can be achieved in the eye pattern of a received signal. The first-order compensating ability of the compensator is greater than 30 ps. The second-order compensating ability is greater than 200 ps2. The first     

实现20Gbit/s的OTDM孤子信号56km色散位移光纤的传输

在国内最先采用孤子的方式将8×2.5Gb/s的OTDM信号在色散位移光纤中传输了56.1km,对8×2.5Gb/s的OTDM进行解复用后进行了误码测量,系统功率代价为2.9dB.系统采用增益开关半导体激光器作光孤子源,高Q电滤波方式提取时钟,非线性光学环路镜解复用。孤子脉冲最大半宽度为20ps,传输光纤平均色散1.2ps/nm/km。     

NOVEL ANALYTIC THEORY FOR ACTIVELY MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASER

The time-domain ABCD matrix formalism is based on the propagation of a Gaussian pulse which is characterized by the pulsewidth and chirp. In this paper, the time-domain ABCD matrix of th SPM (self phase modulation) is perfected so as to acquire more information. With the time-domain ABCD matrices of amplitude modulation, filtration from the optical bandpass, group velocity dispersion and SPM, the detailed characteristics of actively mode-locked fiber laser are described and the steady-state solutions are derived for two simple cases. The application of the formalism is also helpful to understand the mechanism of mode-locking in an actively mode-locked fiber laser.