Title :
Direct digital drive optical QAM modulator with a single Multi-Electrode Mach Zehnder Modulator
Author :
Ehrlichman, Yossef ; Amrani, Ofer ; Ruschin, Shlomo
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. Eng., Tel-Aviv Univ., Tel-Aviv, Israel
Abstract :
An Optical QAM Modulator that employs a single Multi-Electrode MZM and is driven by binary signals is presented. Theoretical performance curves for a square 64-QAM are given. With sufficient number of electrodes, an ideal performance curves can be obtained.
Keywords :
optical modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; binary signals; direct digital drive optical QAM modulator; performance curves; single multielectrode Mach-Zehnder modulator; Constellation diagram; Electrodes; High speed optical techniques; Optical modulation; Phase modulation; Quadrature amplitude modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Torino
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8536-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8534-5
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621472
