Full optical spectral utilization by microwave domain filtering of tandem single sidebands

Author

Narasimha, A. ; Xue Jun Meng ; Wu, M.C. ; Yablonovitch, E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

17-22 March 2001

Abstract

We present an optical tandem single sideband receiver that eliminates the need for guardbands between adjacent WDM channels, while also receiving signals that have different data on the two sidebands of the same optical carrier.

Keywords

microwave filters; microwave photonics; optical filters; optical modulation; optical receivers; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM channels; adjacent WDM channels; densely packed optical; dispersion penalty; dual-electrode Mach-Zehnder modulator; error-free reception; fiber Fabry Perot; full optical spectral utilization; guardbands; microwave domain filtering; microwave filtering; optical carrier; optical communication system; optical communications channels; optical filtering; optical single sideband communication systems; optical tandem single sideband receiver; reflection mode; sidebands; single sideband receiver; spectral efficiency; spectral space; spectrally dense optical signals; tandem single sideband modulation scheme; tandem single sidebands; Filtering; Microwave filters; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber filters; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Signal generators; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, 2001. OFC 2001

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-655-9

Type

conf

Filename

928494