Title :
Modulation and chirp characterization of a 100-GHz EO polymer Mach-Zehnder modulator
Author :
Nuccio, S.R. ; Dinu, R. ; Shamee, B. ; Parekh, D. ; Chang-Hasnain, C. ; Willner, A.E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. Syst., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
We experimentally characterize a 100-GHz polymer Mach-Zehnder modulator including its frequency chirp response and broadband data modulation. BER performance is achieved at 80 Gbit/s for DPSK and >;90 Gbit/s for OOK. Tunable chirp operation is demonstrated while eye diagrams at 100 Gbit/s and 110-GHz S21 measurements further demonstrate the >; 100-GHz response.
Keywords :
chirp modulation; differential phase shift keying; error statistics; frequency response; optical communication equipment; optical modulation; optical polymers; optical tuning; BER performance; DPSK; EO polymer Mach-Zehnder modulator; bit rate 100 Gbit/s; bit rate 80 Gbit/s; broadband data modulation; chirp characterization; eye diagram; frequency 100 GHz; frequency chirp response; on-off keying; tunable chirp operation;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0213-6
