A Low-Cost Light Source for WDM-PONs with Shared High Power Fiber Lasers

Miao, Jian; Ren, Jiuchun

doi:10.1109/icct.2006.341837

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“…Each WDM-PON transmitters basically uses a broadband incoherent light source and the slicing apparatus helps to generate the multiwavelength output. This source has the potential to make the cost per wavelength very low [10]. According to the introduction above, multiwavelength fiber lasers are one of the promising approaches to investigate the light source of the WDM-PON systems, due to their various advantages such as multiwavelength operation, low costs, low insertion losses and simple structures.…”

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Multiwavelength fiber ring laser based on an SOA and Lyot birefringent filter

Wang

Lin

2008

Passive Components and Fiber-Based Devices V

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This paper presents a detailed study on Wavelength Division Multiplexing -Passive Optical Network (WDM-PON) light source of spectrum sliced multiwavelength fiber ring laser and simple optical Lyot filter. First, the principle of the Lyot birefringent filter for comb generation of the multiwavelength laser is theoretically analyzed. Then we incorporate the Lyot filter and a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) as the gain medium into a ring laser cavity. Finally, we experimentally demonstrate an SOA based multiwavelength fiber ring laser using Lyot birefringent filter. Multiwavelength operation up to 25 laser lines with the signal-to-noise ratio over 30dB and 0.8nm wavelength spacing was demonstrated. The power equalize is within 2 dB and the line width 0.108nm is close to the equipment resolution. This multiwavelength laser source has also been proved to have good stability after consistently 90 min time evolution. In general, this multiwavelength laser source has the advantage of simple structure, multiwavelength operation, high SNR and good stability.

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confidence: 99%