简介:Wehavedevelopedacost-effectiveandhighlycompact100-Gb/scoarsewavelengthdivisionmultiplexing(CWDM)transmitteropticalsubassembly(TOSA)usinglens-freehybridintegration.Toachievelargealignmenttolerances,distributedfeedbacklaserdiodes(DFB-LDs)arebutt-coupledtoafour-channelsilica-basedplanarlightwavecircuit(PLC)arrayedwaveguidegrating,withthesiliconsub-mountsandPLCadhesivelybonded.Then,aflexibleprintedcircuitisemployedtoconnecttheinternalDFB-LDsandtheexterioroftheTOSApackageforradiofrequencysignaltransmission,eliminatingtheexpensiveceramicfeed-through.ThepackagedCWDMTOSA,whichis15.8mm×7.0mm×6.0mminsize,showsaside-modesuppressionratioof>40dB,a3dBbandwidthof>18GHz,anderror-freetransmissionwithanaverageopticaloutputpowerof>0dBmanddynamicextinctionratioof>4.0dBat25.78125Gb/sovera10kmsingle-modefiberforallfourlanes.