directly modulated lasers;
filter concatenation;
frequency chirp;
metropolitan area optical networks;
D O I:
10.1109/68.986829
中图分类号:
TM [电工技术];
TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号:
0808 ;
0809 ;
摘要:
In this letter, we present the feasibility of metro area transparent wavelength-division-multiplexing networking with cost-effective 1550-nm 10-Gb/s directly modulated transmitters. We report excellent performance results (Q-factor > 9 dB) for a transparent short-reach metropolitan area ring network based on application-optimized, optical layer components and fiber. The demonstration is based on a network consisting of four nodes interconnected with 25.5-km spans of uncompensated negative dispersion fiber. The network is designed to support 32 directly modulated channels operating at 10 Gb/s (320-Gb/s capacity).