Title :
Generation of nyquist sinc pulses using intensity modulators
Author :
Soto, Marcelo A. ; Alem, Mehdi ; Shoaie, Mohammad Amin ; Vedadi, A. ; Bres, C.-S. ; Thevenaz, Luc ; Schneider, T.
Author_Institution :
Group for Fibre Opt. (GFO), EPFL Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstract :
Optical sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses are produced based on the generation of an ideal frequency comb using cascaded intensity modulators. Nyquist pulses with 9.8-ps temporal width, 82-fs jitter and more than 40 dB SNR are achieved.
Keywords :
electro-optical modulation; optical communication equipment; optical pulse generation; Nyquist sinc pulse generation; SNR; cascaded intensity modulators; ideal frequency comb; jitter; noise figure 40 dB; optical sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses; time 82 fs; time 9.8 ps; Amplitude modulation; Frequency modulation; Nonlinear optics; Optical fibers; Optical pulse generation;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
