TY - JOUR
T1 - Broadly Tunable Self-Injection Locked InAs/InP Quantum-dash Laser Based Fiber / FSO / Hybrid Fiber-FSO Communication at 1610 nm
AU - Shemis, Mohamed Adel
AU - Alkhazraji, Emad A.
AU - Ragheb, Amr Mohamed
AU - Khan, Muhammad Talal Ali
AU - Esmail, Maged Abdullah
AU - Fathallah, Habib Ali
AU - Alshebeili, Saleh
AU - Khan, Mohammed Zahed Mustafa
N1 - 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.
PY - 2018/2/26
Y1 - 2018/2/26
N2 - 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).
AB - 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).
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/629752
UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8302594/
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85042690572&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/jphot.2018.2809566
DO - 10.1109/jphot.2018.2809566
M3 - Article
SN - 1943-0655
VL - 10
SP - 1
EP - 10
JO - IEEE Photonics Journal
JF - IEEE Photonics Journal
IS - 2
ER -