Title :
Experimental demonstration of compensating the I/Q imbalance and bias deviation of the Mach-Zehnder modulator for an RF-tone assisted optical OFDM system
Author :
Peng, Wei-Ren ; Zhang, Bo ; Wu, Xiaoxia ; Feng, Kai-Ming ; Willner, Alan E. ; Chi, Sien
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Abstract :
We demonstrate an equalization technique to compensate for impairments induced by dispersion as well as I/Q imbalance and bias deviation in the MZM. The proposed scheme has a 2 dB improvement in back to back and a 4 dB gain after 800 km SSMF transmission with I/Q imbalance.
Keywords :
OFDM modulation; equalisers; optical switches; I/Q imbalance; Mach-Zehnder modulator; RF-tone assisted optical OFDM system; SSMF transmission; bias deviation; equalization technique; experimental demonstration; Digital signal processing; Interference; OFDM; Optical filters; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Optical signal processing; Optical transmitters; Photodiodes;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2008. ECOC 2008. 34th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Brussels
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2227-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2228-9
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2008.4729158
