Transmission of 1.25-Gb/s quasi-single-sideband optical UWB signals over single-mode fiber

Author

Pan, Shilong ; Yao, Jianping

Author_Institution

Microwave Photonics Res. Lab., Univ. of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

fYear

2010

fDate

10-14 Jan. 2010

Firstpage

500

Lastpage

503

Abstract

We propose and demonstrate a simple and novel method to generate a quasi-single-sideband (QSSB) optical ultra-wideband (UWB) signal using a dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulator. To evaluate the transmission performance of the generated QSSB UWB signal, an analytical model is developed with the evolution of the waveforms and the spectra with the transmission distance studied. The theoretical analysis is verified by an experiment. Eye diagrams, electrical spectra and bit-error rate measurement show that the proposed system has a good tolerance to the chromatic dispersion (CD) of single mode fiber (SMF).

Keywords

optical communication; ultra wideband communication; QSSB UWB signal; bit-error rate measurement; chromatic dispersion; dual drive Mach-Zehnder modulator; electrical spectra; eye diagrams; quasi-single-sideband optical; single mode fiber; transmission distance; transmission performance; ultra wideband signal; Bit error rate; Chirp modulation; Electric variables measurement; Microwave photonics; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers; Optical modulation; Optical pulses; Signal generators; Ultra wideband technology; Single sideband; microwave photonics; optical fiber dispersion; ultra-wideband (UWB);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4725-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4726-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RWS.2010.5434234

Filename

5434234