2.5 Gbit/s low-penalty operation of an optically triggered bistable laser incorporating a proton bombarded absorber

Abstract

2.5Gbit/s operation with a penalty of 0.5dB at BER = 10−9 is demonstrated by using an optically triggered bistable laser incorporating a proton bombarded absorber section. This high speed and low penalty make this kind of device particularly suitable for application in future cascaded wavelength-division photonic switching systems.