• DocumentCode
    2107282
  • Title

    40-GHz CSRZ Optical Pulse Generation Using a 10-GHz Mach-Zehnder Modulator and a 25-ps Delay Line Interferometer

  • Author

    Wu, Xiaoxia ; Christen, Louis ; Yang, Jeng-Yuan ; Nuccio, Scott R. ; Willner, Alan ; Paraschis, Loukas

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    21-25 Oct. 2007
  • Firstpage
    882
  • Lastpage
    883
  • Abstract
    We experimentally demonstrate chirp-free 40-GHz CSRZ optical pulse generation using a 10-GHz Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) biased at the maximum transmission and a 25-ps delay line interferometer (DLI). The unwanted 20-GHz low frequency component is suppressed by about 25-dB.
  • Keywords
    Mach-Zehnder interferometers; delay lines; optical pulse generation; CSRZ; DLI; MZM; Mach-Zehnder modulator; carrier-suppressed return-to-zero; delay line interferometer; frequency 10 GHz; frequency 40 GHz; optical pulse generation; time 25 ps; Clocks; Delay lines; Optical fiber polarization; Optical interferometry; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Optical signal processing; Phase modulation; Pulse modulation; Signal generators;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2007. LEOS 2007. The 20th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Lake Buena Vista, FL
  • ISSN
    1092-8081
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-0925-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1092-8081
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LEOS.2007.4382691
  • Filename
    4382691