4*10 Gbps WDM communication system based on a tunable V-cavity semiconductor laser
Tuo Chen, Zheqi Liu, Qiaochu Yang, Jianjun Meng, Tianshu Wang, Jian‐Jun He, Qiu-Shun Li, Mingyu Li
Abstract
This paper is about the V-cavity tunable semiconductor laser with a 1550 nm band used as a transmitter to build a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) optical fiber communication link. In the experiment, a 20 km optical fiber communication link with a reasonable eye diagram and low bit error rate (BER) transmitted by 40 Gbps can be established. The experimental results show that a single laser can achieve a wavelength tuning range of 25 nm, reach 32 channels at a 100 GHz frequency interval, and the average side mode suppression ratio (SMSR) is above 39 dB. The advantages and application potential of V-cavity tunable semiconductor laser (VCL) for wavelength routing in optical communication networking are verified by experiments.