Broadly Tunable Self-Injection Locked InAs/InP Quantum-dash Laser Based Fiber / FSO / Hybrid Fiber-FSO Communication at 1610 nm

Mohamed Adel Shemis, Emad A. Alkhazraji, Amr Mohamed Ragheb, Muhammad Talal Ali Khan, Maged Abdullah Esmail, Habib Ali Fathallah, Saleh Alshebeili, Mohammed Zahed Mustafa Khan

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Abstract

We report a self-injection locked InAs/InP quantum-dash tunable laser with ~11 nm (1602-1613 nm) tuning window for next generation multiuser ultra-high capacity fiber/free-space optics (FSO)/hybrid fiber-FSO based optical networks. A tunability of >18 independently locked sub-carriers with ~28 dB side mode suppression ratio (SMSR) and stable (± 0.1 dBm) mode power is exhibited, and an estimated small injection ratio of ~-22 dBm is found to sustain locking and SMSR. Error free transmission of 100 Gb/s and 128 Gb/s externally modulated dual-polarization quadrature phase shift keying (DP-QPSK) signals over 20 km single mode fiber (SMF) and 16 m indoor FSO links, are demonstrated across 8 and 4 individual sub-carriers, respectively, thus covering the entire tuning range. Moreover, up to 168 (192) Gb/s successful transmission over 10 km SMF (BTB) and 176 Gb/s over 16 m FSO link, is achieved on ~1610 nm sub-carrier. Finally, a 128 Gb/s DP-QPSK transmission over 11 km SMF -8 m FSO -11 km SMF hybrid system is accomplished, thus paving the potential deployment of this single-chip, cost-effective and energy efficient tunable light source in multi-terabits/s next-generation passive optical networks (NG-PONs).
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1-10
Number of pages10
JournalIEEE Photonics Journal
Volume10
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 26 2018
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): KAUST004
Acknowledgements: This work was supported, in part by King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals through KAUST004 grant, in part by King Saud University for funding through research group no. RG- 1438-092, and in part by KACST-TIC in SSL via EE2381 grant . MZMK gratefully acknowledges Prof. B. S. Ooi and Dr. T. K. Ng from KAUST, as well as Prof. P. Bhattacharya and Dr. C-S. Lee from University of Michigan.
This publication acknowledges KAUST support, but has no KAUST affiliated authors.

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