10 Gbps Colorless Optical Source in Wavelength-Division Multiplexed Passive Optical Networks for Monolithic Integration of Deep-Ridge Waveguide Electroabsorption Modulator with Planar Buried-Heterostructure Semiconductor Optical Amplifier

For the 10 Gbps colorless optical source in wavelength-division multiplexed passive optical networks (WDM-PONs), we have fabricated a semiconductor optical amplifier-reflective electorabsorption modulator (SOA-REAM) by monolithic integration of deep-ridge waveguide REAM (DRW-REAM) with planar buried-heterostructure (PBH) SOA using a PNP-current blocking layer. The SOA-REAM has a spot-size convertor for easy fiber coupling. Using a butterfly module with an SMA connector, we have packaged the SOA-REAM. At a -10 dBm input power of 1550 nm, the saturation output power is about 6 dBm. At 10.7 Gbps, we can obtain clear eye diagrams, and the power penalty at 10-9 bit-error rate (BER) after 20 km transmission is less than 1 dB over 35 nm.