Chirp and error rate analyses of an optical-injection gain-switching VCSEL based all-optical NRZ-to-PRZ converter.
Optically injection-locked single-wavelength gain-switching VCSEL based all-optical converter is demonstrated to generate RZ data at 2.5 Gbit/s with bit-error-rate of 10(-9) under receiving power of -29.3 dBm. A modified rate equation model is established to elucidate the optical injection induced gain-switching and NRZ-to-RZ data conversion in the VCSEL. The peak-to-peak frequency chirp of the VCSEL based NRZ-to-RZ is 4.5 GHz associated with a reduced frequency chirp rate of 178 MHz/ps at input optical NRZ power of -21 dBm, which is almost decreasing by a factor of 1/3 comparing with chirp on the SOA based NRZ-to-RZ converter reported previously. The power penalty of the BER measured back-to-back is about 2 dB from 1 Gbit/s to 2.5 Gbit/s.
Lin
Chia-Chi
CC
1Institute of Photonics and Optoelectronics, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University No.1 Roosevelt Rd. Sec. 4, Taipei 106, Taiwan, ROC.
Kuo
Hao-Chung
HC
Peng
Peng-Chun
PC
Lin
Gong-Ru
GR
D003195:Computer Communication Networks / Q000295:instrumentation*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D054023:Lasers, Semiconductor; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013685:Telecommunications / Q000295:instrumentation*