Title : 
Optical 8PSK transmitter using tandem IQ modulators with binary driving electrical signals
         
        
            Author : 
Lu, Guo-Wei ; Sakamoto, Takahide ; Kawanishi, Tetsuya
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Koganei, Japan
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We propose and demonstrate an optical 8-ary phase-shift keying (8PSK) transmitter using tandem in-phase/quadrature (IQ) modulators. A 30-Gb/s 8PSK is successfully generated through cascading a rectangular quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK) and a square QPSK.
         
        
            Keywords : 
optical modulation; optical transmitters; quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; binary driving electrical signals; optical 8-ary phase-shift keying transmitter; rectangular quadrature phase-shift keying; square QPSK; tandem in-phase/quadrature modulators; Fiber optics; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical transmitters; Phase shift keying;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Baltimore, MD
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4577-1223-4