Demonstration of a novel optical transmitter for high-speed differential phase-shift-keying/inverse-return-to-zero (DPSK/inv-RZ) orthogonally modulated signals

Author

Pun, Siu-Sun ; Chan, Chun-Kit ; Chen, Lian-Kuan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China

Volume

17

Issue

12

fYear

2005

Firstpage

2763

Lastpage

2765

Abstract

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a simple and novel optical transmitter for superimposing 10-Gb/s differential phase-shift-keying signals on a 10-Gb/s inverse-return-to-zero signal. The proposed transmitter comprises a dual-drive Mach-Zehnder intensity modulator and an optical phase modulator. Its performance has been experimentally characterized.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; differential phase shift keying; intensity modulation; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; optical transmitters; 10 Gbit/s; Mach-Zehnder intensity modulator; differential phase-shift-keying; inverse-return-to-zero modulation; optical phase modulator; optical transmitter; orthogonally modulated signals; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; High speed optical techniques; Intensity modulation; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical transmitters; Phase modulation; Phase shift keying; Pulse modulation; Signal generators; Differential phase-shift keying (DPSK); inverse return-to-zero (Inv-RZ); optical modulation; optical transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.859412

Filename

1542216