• DocumentCode
    2848626
  • 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
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    19-23 Sept. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621472
  • Filename
    5621472