Title :
Electronic precompensation of the nonlinear distortion in a 10 Gb/s 4-ary ASK directly modulated laser
Author :
Karar, Abdullah S. ; Jiang, Ying ; Cartledge, John C. ; Harley, James ; Krause, David J. ; Roberts, Kim
Author_Institution :
Queen´´s Univ., Kingston, ON, Canada
Abstract :
The nonlinear distortion resulting from the direct modulation of a semiconductor laser using 4-ary amplitude shift keying at 10 Gb/s is mitigated by precompensation based on the use of digital signal processing to generate an appropriate modulating current.
Keywords :
amplitude shift keying; nonlinear optics; optical communication equipment; optical distortion; optical modulation; semiconductor lasers; ASK; amplitude shift keying; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; digital signal processing; electronic precompensation; nonlinear distortion; semiconductor laser direct modulation; Laser noise; Nonlinear optics; Optical distortion; Optical feedback; Optical modulation;
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.2010.5621422
