Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1541318 | Optics Communications | 2008 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
In this work, the effect of modulation instability (MI) in optical fiber is used to reshape nanosecond pulses form a directly modulated diode laser. Our configuration includes a fiber where MI causes the side lobes in the signal spectrum and a filter at the fiber output rejecting the side lobes. Simulations show abrupt drop of the transmission of the setup if pulse power is above some critical value. We investigated the transmission for fibers with lengths in the range between 62-m and 4.5-km. The critical power was found to be inversely proportional to the fiber length. An average scaled critical power is 2.16Â WÂ km. We demonstrated the application of the method for rejection of the transient peak in a directly modulated diode laser.
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Authors
R. Rojas-Laguna, J. Gutierrez-Gutierrez, E.A. Kuzin, M.A. Bello-Jimenez, B. Ibarra-Escamilla, J.M. Estudillo-Ayala, A. Flores-Rosas,