Optical fibre modulator with parallel channels of modulation

Author

Goncharenko, LA ; Konojko, A.I. ; Kuleshov, V.K.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electron., Nat. Acad. of Sci. of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

29 June-3 July 2003

Firstpage

114

Abstract

The structure of an electrooptics modulator is proposed which permits to overcome the limitations imposed by the parameters of control channel. The basic elements of the modulator are electrically controlled fibre Bragg gratings. The proposed structure makes it possible to obtain the modulation of optical radiation with double frequency compared with other modulators with the same electronic control circuits. In the report we calculate the modulation characteristics of such a modulator, consider the different conditions of it operating and estimate the possibility of farther increasing the speed of modulation by optimisation of the parameters of fibre Bragg gratings. The proposed device is compact and can be easily connected with optical fibre links.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; electro-optical modulation; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optimisation; control channel; control circuits; double frequency; electrically controlled fibre Bragg gratings; electrooptics modulator; modulation characteristics; optical fibre links; optical fibre modulator; optical radiation; parallel modulation channels; Bragg gratings; Electrooptic modulators; Fiber gratings; Frequency; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical refraction; Optical variables control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2003. Proceedings of 2003 5th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7816-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2003.1263158

Filename

1263158