O-band 10-Gb/s operation of a reflective semiconductor optical amplifier based self-seeded transmitter for optical access applications

New applications emerge in the optical access for WDM PON colourless transmitters based on RSOA. Previous works have shown that 10 Gb/s operation can be reached in the C-band with such transmitters. Yet trade-offs are necessary when chromatic dispersion and, consequently, link length enter the equation. We discuss here such impairments using both experimental data and simulation results. We present also new experimental data with interesting performance in the O-band