摘要 |
An optical transmitter (405) includes a distributed feedback semiconductor laser (100) operated in a linear regime below a threshold associated with stimulated Brillouin scattering to generate an optical signal. A resistor (125) or other heater is physically coupled to the semiconductor laser (100), and a modulated current source (120) drives the resistor (125) with a triangle waveform (300), thereby varying an optical wavelength of the optical signal such that the optical signal and a double Rayleigh backscattered signal are characterized, at the optical receiver (410), by different optical frequencies. As a result, interference generated by Rayleigh backscattering is minimized at the optical receiver (410).
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