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We report the effects of external optical feedback on the power penalty of commercial distributed feedback laser diode (DFB-LD) modules for 2.5Gbs−1 optical transmission systems. External optical feedback presented to the DFB-LD modules causes the excitation of external cavity modes, resulting in increased relative intensity noise (RIN) and intensity noise ripples at low frequency region below 500MHz. For a 10−10 bit error rate (BER), the minimum power penalty is as much as 1.25dB for a feedback ratio of −8.8dB. An excess power penalty of 0.5dB per 3dB increase in the feedback ratio was also empirically obtained. We suggest that optical isolators in 2.5Gbs−1 DFB-LD modules used in conventional optical transmission systems or WDM systems must have a peak isolation ratio of better than 54.5dB, instead of the previously recommended 30dB, for negligible power penalty induced by external optical feedback.
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PARK, K.H., LEE, J.K., HAN, J.H. et al. The effects of external optical feedback on the power penalty of DFB-LD modules for 2.5Gbs−1 optical transmission systems. Optical and Quantum Electronics 30, 23–31 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006910607553
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