Low-cost E1-class 10-Gb/s directly modulation laser in TO-can package with optical filtering for XG-PON application

A low-cost El-class 1577nm 10Gb/s directly modulation DFB laser in TO-can package is demonstrated with 7.3dBm output power and 8.9dB extinction ratio using optical filtering. 37.6dB power budget is achieved after 20km single-mode fiber transmission.