O-Band 10-Gb/s Operation of a Reflective Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Based Self-Seeded Transmitter for Optical Access Applications
01 January 2014
New applications are emerging in the optical access for wavelength-division multiplexed passive optical network colorless transmitters based on a reflective semiconductor optical amplifier. Previous works have shown that 10-Gb/s operation can be reached in the C-band with such transmitters, yet trade-offs are necessary for chromatic dispersion and, consequently, link length enters the equation. Such impairments are discussed using both experimental data and simulation results. New experimental data with interesting performance in the O-band are also presented.