10-80-Gb/s highly extinctive electrooptic pulse pattern generation

Author

Otsuji, Taiichi ; Yaita, Makoto ; Nagatsuma, Tadao ; Sano, Eiichi

Author_Institution

NTT Syst. Electron. Labs., Kanagawa, Japan

Volume

2

Issue

3

fYear

1996

fDate

9/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

643

Lastpage

649

Abstract

A pulse-rate-tunable, highly extinctive, ultra-highspeed electrooptic pulse pattern generator has been developed. The optical short pulse generation is based on sinusoidal electrooptic phase modulation and linear chirp compensation using a dispersive medium. Filtering the nonlinear chirp components generated by sinusoidal phase modulation drastically improves the pulse extinction, and makes nearly background-free picosecond pulsation over a wide pulse-rate range even when the group delay dispersion value is fixed

Keywords

chirp modulation; compensation; electro-optical modulation; high-speed optical techniques; optical dispersion; tuning; 10 to 80 Gbit/s; Gb/s highly extinctive electrooptic pulse pattern generation; dispersive medium; group delay dispersion value; linear chirp compensation; nearly background-free picosecond pulsation; nonlinear chirp components; optical short pulse generation; pulse extinction; pulse-rate-tunable highly extinctive ultra-highspeed electrooptic pulse pattern generator; sinusoidal electrooptic phase modulation; sinusoidal phase modulation; wide pulse-rate range; Chirp; Dispersion; Nonlinear optical devices; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical pulse generation; Phase modulation; Pulse generation; Pulse modulation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1077-260X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/2944.571763

Filename

571763