Influence of harmonic distortions of driving signal on the measurement of Mach-Zehnder modulator parameters

Author

Nishi, Yoshio ; Ichino, Naoya ; Hayashi, Teruaki ; Toda, Hiroaki ; Kawanishi, Tetsuyas

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Sci. & Eng., Doshisha Univ., Kyotanabe, Japan

fYear

2014

fDate

20-23 Oct. 2014

Firstpage

117

Lastpage

120

Abstract

In this paper, we describe the influence of harmonic distortions of RF driving signal on the measurement of Mach-Zehnder modulator parameters, those are half-wave voltage and intrinsic chirp parameter. The influences on the measured parameters were experimentally verified in the presence of 2nd and 3rd order harmonic distortions individually.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; electro-optical modulation; harmonic distortion; nonlinear optics; optical retarders; optical variables measurement; 2nd order harmonic distortions; 3rd order harmonic distortions; Mach-Zehnder modulator parameter measurement; RF driving signal; half-wave voltage; intrinsic chirp parameter; Distortion measurement; Harmonic distortion; Optical distortion; Optical modulation; Radio frequency; Voltage measurement; advanced modulation format; chirp parameter; electro-optic modulators; intensity modulation; optical fiber communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Photonics (MWP) and the 2014 9th Asia-Pacific Microwave Photonics Conference (APMP), 2014 International Topical Meeting on

Conference_Location

Sapporo

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWP.2014.6994506

Filename

6994506