H. Roussell et al., EFFECT OF OPTICAL FEEDBACK ON HIGH-DYNAMIC-RANGE FABRY-PEROT LASER OPTICAL LINKS, IEEE photonics technology letters, 9(1), 1997, pp. 106-108
The effect of optical backreflection is measured on a 450-MHz optical
link using a commercial Fabry-Perot laser without an isolator. With a
low backreflection photodetector, the dynamic range of the Fabry-Perot
link is comparable to a link with a high-linearity distributed feedba
ck laser, With a standard photodetector, the dynamic range is 13 dB lo
wer.