The effects of external optical feedback on the power penalty of DFB-LD modules for 2.5Gbs−1 optical transmission systems |
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Authors: | PARK K. H. LEE J. K. HAN J. H. CHO H. S. JANG D. H. PARK C. S. PYUN K. E. JEONG JICHAI |
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Affiliation: | (1) Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Yusong, PO Box 106, Taejon, 305-600, Korea;(2) Department of Radio Engineering, Korea University, 5-1 Ka, Anam-Dong, Sungbuk-Ku, Seoul, 136-701, Korea |
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Abstract: | We report the effects of external optical feedback on the power penalty of commercial distributed feedback laser diode (DFB-LD) modules for 2.5Gbs–1 optical transmission systems. External optical feedback presented to the DFB-LD modules causes the excitation of external cavity modes, resulting in increased relative intensity noise (RIN) and intensity noise ripples at low frequency region below 500MHz. For a 10–10 bit error rate (BER), the minimum power penalty is as much as 1.25dB for a feedback ratio of –8.8dB. An excess power penalty of 0.5dB per 3dB increase in the feedback ratio was also empirically obtained. We suggest that optical isolators in 2.5Gbs–1 DFB-LD modules used in conventional optical transmission systems or WDM systems must have a peak isolation ratio of better than 54.5dB, instead of the previously recommended 30dB, for negligible power penalty induced by external optical feedback. |
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