Integrated tandem electroabsorption modulators for high-speed OTDM applications

Author

Kaman, Volkan ; Chiu, Yi-Jen ; Liljeberg, Thomas ; Bowers, John E. ; Zhang, Sheng Z.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

109

Lastpage

112

Abstract

An integrated tandem traveling-wave electroabsorption modulators is demonstrated as an optical short pulse generator and demultiplexer for >100 Gbit/s optical time-division-multiplexed systems. Optical pulses of 4.2 ps width at 30 GHz with an extinction ratio in excess of 30 dB are achieved

Keywords

demultiplexing equipment; digital communication; electro-optical modulation; electroabsorption; integrated optics; optical communication equipment; optical pulse generation; time division multiplexing; 100 Gbit/s; 30 GHz; 4.2 ps; demultiplexer; electroabsorption modulators; high-speed OTDM applications; integrated tandem EA modulators; optical TDM systems; optical short pulse generator; optical time-division-multiplexed systems; traveling-wave electroabsorption modulators; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical modulation; Optical pulse compression; Optical pulse generation; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Pulse modulation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Photonics, 2000. MWP 2000. International Topical Meeting on

Conference_Location

Oxford

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6455-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWP.2000.889799

Filename

889799