Title :
An 80-GHz chirp-free carrier-suppressed optical pulse generator using cascaded 20-GHz clock-driven Mach-Zehnder modulators
Author :
Lu, Guo-Wei ; Miyazaki, Tetsuya
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Tokyo
Abstract :
We propose and experimentally demonstrate a chirp-free carrier-suppressed optical pulse generator using a cost-effective approach. The proposed 80-GHz carrier-suppressed optical pulse generator consists of two cascaded cascade 20-GHz clock-driven dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulators.
Keywords :
optical modulation; optical pulse generation; chirp-free carrier-suppressed optical pulse generator; clock-driven Mach-Zehnder modulators; frequency 20 GHz; frequency 80 GHz; Chirp; Clocks; High speed optical techniques; Optical modulation; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse generation; Pulse modulation; Radio frequency; Space vector pulse width modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics - Pacific Rim, 2007. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2007. Conference on
Conference_Location :
Seoul
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1173-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1174-0
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2007.4391590
