Title :
High-speed and presice lightwave modulation technologies
Author :
Kawanishi, Tetsuya ; Sakamoto, Takahide ; Chiba, Akito
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Koganei, Japan
Abstract :
We present recent progress of high-speed Mach-Zehnder interferometer based device technologies for advanced modulation formats. Parallel Mach-Zehnder modulators can be used for multi-level quadrature amplitude modulation, and also for high extinction-ratio modulation.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; extinction coefficients; high-speed optical techniques; optical modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; Mach-Zehnder modulator; high extinction-ratio modulation; high-speed Mach-Zehnder interferometer; lightwave modulation technology; multilevel quadrature amplitude modulation; Amplitude modulation; Chirp modulation; Electrodes; Erbium; Frequency shift keying; Phase modulation; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Quadrature phase shift keying; Signal generators; Signal synthesis;
Conference_Titel :
OptoElectronics and Communications Conference, 2009. OECC 2009. 14th
Conference_Location :
Hong Kong
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4102-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4103-7
DOI :
10.1109/OECC.2009.5215728