Four distributed feedback laser array integrated with multimode-interference and semiconductor optical amplifier

Monolithic integration of four 1.55-μm-range InGaAsP/InP distributed feedback （DFB） lasers using varied ridge width with a 4 x 1-multimode-interference （MMI） optical combiner and a semiconductor optical amplifier （SOA） is demon- strated. The average output power and the threshold current are 1.8 mW and 35 mA, respectively, when the injection current of the SOA is 100 mA, with a side mode suppression ratio （SMSR） exceeding 40 dB. The four channels have a 1-nm average channel spacing and can operate separately or simultaneously.

Achievable Uplink Rate Analysis for Distributed Massive MIMO Systems with Interference from Adjacent Cells

This work focuses on the multicell multi-user distributed massive MIMO(DM-MIMO)systems,of which each user is equipped with single antenna and the base stations(BSs)consists of distributed antenna units. We first investigate the arbitrary BS antenna topology scenario. The derivation indicates that in this case the achievable uplink rate of an arbitrary user in central cell depends on both the number of BS's antennas and the users' access distance to each distributed antenna unit(DAU). As a result,the performance analysis based on the derivations is difficult. To overcome this issue and achieve clearer insight,we then consider a circularly distributed BS antenna array and obtain the asymptotic uplink rate of an arbitrary user by considering the asymptotic case where the number of antennas of BSs tends to infinity. It is achieved that the asymptotic uplink rate only depends on the distance from users' position to the center of reference cell. The presented numerical results show clearly that the distributed massive MIMO systems outperform the centralized ones. Moreover,it is also achieved that the interference from the adjacent cells imposes great impact on system performance. Besides this,in numerical analysis the averageasymptotic uplink rate of a user is presented,which is free of the users' position and only depends on the radius of circular antenna arrays. It is achieved the maximum average uplink rate would be achieved when the radius of circularly distributed antenna array goes to its optimization location.

Wideband tunable REC-DFB laser array using thin-film heaters on the submount

A wideband wavelength-tunable 4×5 distributed feedback(DFB)semiconductor laser array based on the reconstructionequivalent-chirp(REC)technique using a simple tuning scheme is demonstrated.It consists of 20 DFB lasers with 4×5matrix interleaving distributions,two-level cascaded Y-branch optical combiners,and one active semiconductor opticalamplifier(SOA),all in-series integrated on one chip.Unlike the traditional thermal-electric cooler(TEC)-based wavelength-tuning scheme,the tunable 4×5 REC-DFB laser array achieves a faster and broader continuous wavelength-tuningrange using TaN thin-film heaters integrated on the AlN submount.By changing the injection current of the TaN resistorfrom 0 to 190 mA,the proposed tunable laser achieves a wavelength-tuning range of∼2.5 nm per channel and a total tuningof over 50 nm.This study opens up new avenues for realizing cost-effective and wide-tuning-range semiconductor lasers.

QKD system with fast active optical path length compensation

We develop a quantum key distribution (QKD) system with fast active optical path length compensation. A rapid and reliable active optical path length compensation scheme is proposed and applied to a plug-and-play QKD system. The system monitors changes in key rates and controls it is own operation automatically. The system achieves its optimal performance within three seconds of operation, which includes a sifted key rate of 5.5 kbps and a quantum bit error rate of less than 2% after an abrupt temperature variation along the 25 km quantum channel. The system also operates well over a 24 h period while completing more than 60 active optical path length compensations.