Title :
A study on automatic bias control for arbitrary optical signal generation by dual-parallel Mach-Zehnder modulator
Author :
Yoshida, Tsuyoshi ; Sugihara, Takashi ; Uto, Kenichi ; Bessho, Hiroshi ; Sawada, Kazushige ; Ishida, Kazuyuki ; Shimizu, Katsuhiro ; Mizuochi, Takashi
Author_Institution :
Inf. Technol. R&D Center, Mitsubishi Electr. Corp., Kamakura, Japan
Abstract :
A novel automatic bias control (ABC) is proposed to generate arbitrary signals with a dual-parallel Mach-Zehnder modulator. We demonstrated the practical generation of arbitrary modulated signals using the proposed scheme.
Keywords :
optical modulation; ABC; arbitrary optical signal generation; automatic bias control; dual-parallel Mach-Zehnder modulator; Adaptive optics; Monitoring; Optical devices; Optical modulation; Peak to average power ratio; Voltage control;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Torino
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8536-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8534-5
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621244
