Title :
Electro-optic synthesis of multi-level coherent signals
Author :
Sakamoto, Takahide ; Chiba, Akito ; Kawanishi, Tetsuya
Author_Institution :
Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Koganei, Japan
Abstract :
We propose an electro-optic vector digital-to-analogue converter employing a structure of multi-parallel Mach-Zender modulator. We demonstrate synthesis of highspeed and high-spectral-efficient optical multi-level coherent signals like n-PSK, n-QAM etc, by superposing BPSK signals.
Keywords :
digital-analogue conversion; electro-optical modulation; optical signal detection; phase shift keying; BPSK signals; electro-optic synthesis; electro-optic vector digital-to-analogue converter; multi-parallel Mach-Zender modulator; optical multi-level coherent signals; Binary phase shift keying; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Optical transmitters; Phase shift keying; 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.2009.5213285
