Upstream traffic transmitter using injection-locked Fabry-Perot laser diode as modulator for WDM access networks

Abstract

An upstream-traffic transmitter based on a Fabry-Perot laser diode (FP-LD) as modulator is proposed and demonstrated for wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) access networks. By injection-locking the FP-LD with the downstream wavelength at the optical network unit (ONU), the original downstream data can be largely suppressed while the upstream data can be transmitted on the same injection-locked wavelength by simultaneously directly-modulating the FP-LD.