Title : 
A novel optical NRZ-to-RZ format converter based on a polarization modulator and an intensity modulator
         
        
            Author : 
Yu, Wenke ; Lou, Caiyun ; Pan, Shilong
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
A NRZ-to-RZ format converter is proposed and demonstrated by numerical simulation. NRZ signal is successfully converted to RZ signal with tunable duty cycle and significant timing-jitter suppression.
         
        
            Keywords : 
intensity modulation; optical communication; optical modulation; optical tuning; time division multiplexing; timing jitter; intensity modulator; non-return-to-zero; optical NRZ-to-RZ format converter; polarization modulator; return-to-zero; timing jitter suppression; tunable duty cycle;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
IEEE Photonics Society, 2010 23rd Annual Meeting of the
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Denver, CO
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-5368-9
         
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/PHOTONICS.2010.5698772