Experimental Demonstration of Low Cost Wavelength Drift Mitigation for TWDM Systems

Conference: ECOC 2016 - 42nd European Conference on Optical Communication
09/18/2016 - 09/22/2016 at Düsseldorf, Deutschland

Proceedings: ECOC 2016

Pages: 3Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Simon, Gael (Orange Labs - 2, avenue Pierre Marzin, 22307, Lannion, France & Télécom ParisTech - CNRS LTCI, 46 rue Barrault, 75634 Paris Cedex 13, France)
Saliou, Fabienne; Chanclou, Philippe; Anet Neto, Luiz (Orange Labs - 2, avenue Pierre Marzin, 22307, Lannion, France)
Erasme, Didier (Télécom ParisTech - CNRS LTCI, 46 rue Barrault, 75634 Paris Cedex 13, France)

Abstract:
We experimentally proved that a harmful wavelength drift of tunable DMLs under burst mode is induced by adiabatic and thermal chirp. We demonstrate the possibility to compensate one phenomenon by the other. The wavelength drift can be reduced by 50%.