Modified duobinary signal generation by means of a Mach-Zehnder intensity modulator as an example for integration of opto-electrical signal processing in optical broadband transmission systems

Author

Enning, B. ; Jagst, V.P.

Author_Institution

Fachhochschule Flensburg, Univ. of Appl. Sci., Flensburg, Germany

fYear

2002

fDate

17-19 Aug. 2002

Firstpage

1071

Lastpage

1074

Abstract

A new modulation scheme is presented utilizing the inherent signal shaping properties of counterpropagating (countp) optical and electrical signals in an optical Mach-Zehnder intensity modulator (MZM). The advantages of this method include the simplification of pulse shaping, spectral efficient modulation and DC-freedom of the signal to be processed by integration into the same single electro-optical device. The usefulness of this concept is verified by a transmission experiment at 1 Gbit/s.

Keywords

electro-optical modulation; intensity modulation; optical communication equipment; optical modulation; optical pulse shaping; wavelength division multiplexing; 1 Gbit/s; DC free signal processing; MZM; WDM; counterpropagating optical/electrical signals; electro-optical devices; modified duobinary signal generation; modulation schemes; optical Mach-Zehnder intensity modulator; optical broadband transmission systems; optical signal shaping; opto-electrical signal processing integration; pulse shaping simplification; spectral efficient modulation; wavelength division multiplexing systems; Electrooptic modulators; Integrated optics; Intensity modulation; Optical modulation; Optical pulse shaping; Optical signal processing; Pulse modulation; Pulse shaping methods; Signal generators; Signal processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Millimeter Wave Technology, 2002. Proceedings. ICMMT 2002. 2002 3rd International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7486-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMMT.2002.1187891

Filename

1187891