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
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