The impact of filter concatenation effects on the performance of wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) metropolitan area transparent optical networks utilizing cost-effective 10-Gb/s transmitters is investigated with recirculating loop experiments. We considered directly modulated lasers and electroabsorption modulator integrated distributed feedback WPM lasers (electroabsorption-distributed feedback) as cost-effective 10-Gb/s transmitters. The filter concatenation performance for thin-film multilayer interference filters designed for dense WDM networks with both 200- and 100-GHz channel spacing is studied.
No takes yet. Share an insight, caveat, or question.
Tomkos et al. (2002) studied this question.
Synapse has enriched one closely related paper. Consider it for comparative context: