• DocumentCode
    47572
  • Title

    Demonstration of V_{\\pi} Reduction in Electrooptic Modulators Using Modulation Instability

  • Author

    Borlaug, David ; DeVore, Peter T. S. ; Rostami, Ahmad ; Boyraz, Ozdal ; Jalali, Bahram

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Volume
    6
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    Oct. 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    9
  • Abstract
    Reduction in the operating voltage of electrooptic modulators is needed, in order to remove the bottleneck in the flow of data between electronics and optical interconnects. We report an experimental demonstration of a tenfold reduction in an electrooptic modulator´s half-wave voltage up to 50 GHz. This was achieved by employing optical sideband-only amplification.
  • Keywords
    electro-optical modulation; optical fibre communication; electrooptic modulators; half-wave voltage; modulation instability; operating voltage reduction; optical sideband-only amplification; Amplitude modulation; Electrooptic modulators; Noise; Optical fiber amplifiers; Fiber optics communication; RF over fiber; analog optical link; half-wave voltage; microwave photonics; modulation; nonlinear optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Photonics Journal, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1943-0655
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/JPHOT.2014.2352626
  • Filename
    6884807
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=47572