Performance improvement of low-cost 2.5-Gb/s rated DML sources operated at 10 Gb/s

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 1983-1985

  Papagiannakis, Ioannis ^a   Klonidis, Dimitrios ^b   Birbas, Alexios N ^a   Kikidis, John ^c   Tomkos, Ioannis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b ATHENS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^c Analogies SA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Directly modulated lasers (DMLs); Dispersion compensation; Electronic equalization

Indexed keywords

10 GB/ S; CENTER WAVELENGTH; DECISION-FEEDBACK EQUALIZATIONS; DETUNINGS; DIRECTLY MODULATED LASERS; DIRECTLY MODULATED LASERS (DMLS); ELECTRONIC EQUALIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FEED-FORWARD; OPTICAL FILTERING; OPTICAL SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; OPTIMUM FILTERS; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; STANDARD SINGLE MODE FIBERS; TRANSMISSION PERFORMANCE;

BIT ERROR RATE; DISPERSION COMPENSATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; FEEDBACK; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 66449111218     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2008.2006250     Document Type: Article

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