DocumentCode
3117296
Title
High-speed and presice lightwave modulation technologies
Author
Kawanishi, Tetsuya ; Sakamoto, Takahide ; Chiba, Akito
Author_Institution
Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Koganei, Japan
fYear
2009
fDate
13-17 July 2009
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
We present recent progress of high-speed Mach-Zehnder interferometer based device technologies for advanced modulation formats. Parallel Mach-Zehnder modulators can be used for multi-level quadrature amplitude modulation, and also for high extinction-ratio modulation.
Keywords
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; extinction coefficients; high-speed optical techniques; optical modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; Mach-Zehnder modulator; high extinction-ratio modulation; high-speed Mach-Zehnder interferometer; lightwave modulation technology; multilevel quadrature amplitude modulation; Amplitude modulation; Chirp modulation; Electrodes; Erbium; Frequency shift keying; Phase modulation; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Quadrature phase shift keying; Signal generators; Signal synthesis;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
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
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/OECC.2009.5215728
Filename
5215728
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