DocumentCode :
47572
Title :
Demonstration of 
Reduction in Electrooptic Modulators Using Modulation Instability
Author :
Borlaug, David ; DeVore, Peter T. S. ; Rostami, Ahmad ; Boyraz, Ozdal ; Jalali, Bahram
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Volume :
6
Issue :
5
fYear :
2014
fDate :
Oct. 2014
Firstpage :
1
Lastpage :
9
Abstract :
Reduction in the operating voltage of electrooptic modulators is needed, in order to remove the bottleneck in the flow of data between electronics and optical interconnects. We report an experimental demonstration of a tenfold reduction in an electrooptic modulator´s half-wave voltage up to 50 GHz. This was achieved by employing optical sideband-only amplification.
Keywords :
electro-optical modulation; optical fibre communication; electrooptic modulators; half-wave voltage; modulation instability; operating voltage reduction; optical sideband-only amplification; Amplitude modulation; Electrooptic modulators; Noise; Optical fiber amplifiers; Fiber optics communication; RF over fiber; analog optical link; half-wave voltage; microwave photonics; modulation; nonlinear optics;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Photonics Journal, IEEE
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
1943-0655
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/JPHOT.2014.2352626
Filename :
6884807
Link To Document :
