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  • Journal of Lightwave Technology
  • Vol. 26,
  • Issue 7,
  • pp. 807-815
  • (2008)

Improving the Performance of Sampled-Grating DBR Laser-Based Analog Optical Transmitters

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Abstract

In this paper, the available analog link performance of integrated transmitters containing a sampled-grating distributed Bragg reflector laser, a semiconductor optical amplifier, and a modulator is evaluated. It is found that to provide a link gain and a low-noise figure, an RF preamplifier is required, and for this reason, spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) including a preamplifier has been evaluated. An SFDR of 110-dBHz<sup>2/3</sup>, a noise figure of 5.4 dB, and link gain of 6.9 dB at 5 GHz is obtained. It is further investigated how link SFDR can be improved by linearization techniques. Two novel approaches are proposed and demonstrated: first, predistortion by extraction of nonlinear components from an integrated second modulator exposed to the same wavelength, optical power and temperature for matched nonlinear terms; second, a novel linearized modulator configuration balancing electroabsorption and Mach–Zehnder modulation that can reach a null for both second- and third-order intermodulation products at a single bias point.

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