• DocumentCode
    733008
  • Title

    Suppressed XMD in multi-carrier, RF-amplified RF photonic link by cascaded MZMs

  • Author

    Xiaodong Liang ; Feifei Yin ; Yitang Dai ; Jianqiang Li ; Kun Xu

  • Author_Institution
    State Key Lab. of Inf. Photonics & Opt. Commun., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Beijing, China
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    10-15 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We experimentally demonstrate the elimination of cross-modulation distortion (XMD) in multicarrier, intensity-modulation direct-detection (IMDD) analog photonic links by cascaded Mach-Zehnder modulators (MZMs). XMD, from both the MZMs and electrical amplifiers, is suppressed by 33 dB.
  • Keywords
    intensity modulation; optical communication equipment; optical links; optical modulation; radio links; cascaded MZM; cascaded Mach-Zehnder modulators; cross-modulation distortion; electrical amplifiers; multicarrier RF-amplified RF photonic link; multicarrier intensity-modulation direct-detection analog photonic links; Amplitude modulation; Nonlinear distortion; Optical fiber amplifiers; Photonics; RF signals; Radio frequency;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7183445