Title :
40-GHz CSRZ Optical Pulse Generation Using a 10-GHz Mach-Zehnder Modulator and a 25-ps Delay Line Interferometer
Author :
Wu, Xiaoxia ; Christen, Louis ; Yang, Jeng-Yuan ; Nuccio, Scott R. ; Willner, Alan ; Paraschis, Loukas
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles
Abstract :
We experimentally demonstrate chirp-free 40-GHz CSRZ optical pulse generation using a 10-GHz Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) biased at the maximum transmission and a 25-ps delay line interferometer (DLI). The unwanted 20-GHz low frequency component is suppressed by about 25-dB.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; delay lines; optical pulse generation; CSRZ; DLI; MZM; Mach-Zehnder modulator; carrier-suppressed return-to-zero; delay line interferometer; frequency 10 GHz; frequency 40 GHz; optical pulse generation; time 25 ps; Clocks; Delay lines; Optical fiber polarization; Optical interferometry; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical signal processing; Phase modulation; Pulse modulation; Signal generators;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2007. LEOS 2007. The 20th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Lake Buena Vista, FL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0925-9
Electronic_ISBN :
1092-8081
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2007.4382691
