• DocumentCode
    2015256
  • Title

    Baseband optical down-sampling for high-performance analog links

  • Author

    Johansson, L.A. ; Coldren, L.A.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    5-10 March 2006
  • Abstract
    A baseband optical down-sampling architecture is experimentally demonstrated where both inphase and quadrature channel are directly accessed using two integrated dual mode-locked lasers. A 2-dB conversion penalty is obtained for a 50 Mbaud QPSK-modulated 2.5 GHz RF signal.
  • Keywords
    laser mode locking; optical information processing; optical modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; signal sampling; 2.5 GHz; QPSK; analog links; baseband optical down-sampling; dual mode-locked lasers; inphase channel; quadrature channel; Baseband; Frequency conversion; Nonlinear optics; Optical feedback; Optical fiber communication; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Pulse modulation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-803-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.2006.215811
  • Filename
    1636842