Generation and modulation of 2.5Gbps ultra-wideband monocycle pulses from non-return-to-zero data

Author

Li, Shangyuan ; Zheng, Xiaoping ; Zhang, Hanyi ; Zhou, Bingkun

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2009

fDate

30-3 Aug. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We propose and experimentally demonstrated a simple scheme to generate and modulate 2.5 Gbps ultra-wideband (UWB) pulse trains directly from non-return-to-zero data using one electro-optic phase modulator and a polarization based asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometer.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; electro-optical modulation; light polarisation; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical pulse generation; ultra wideband communication; UWB pulse train generation; UWB-over-fiber technology; bit rate 2.56 Gbit/s; electrooptic phase modulator; nonreturn-to-zero data; polarization based asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometer; ultrawideband monocycle pulse modulation; Electrooptic modulators; Optical modulation; Optical pulse generation; Optical signal processing; Phase modulation; Pulse generation; Pulse modulation; Signal generators; Ultra wideband technology; Voltage; UWB-over-fiber; Ultra-wideband (UWB); asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometer (AMZI); non-return-to-zero (NRZ); phase modulation (PM);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers & Electro Optics & The Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009. CLEO/PACIFIC RIM '09. Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3829-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3830-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOPR.2009.5292147

Filename

5292147