• DocumentCode
    688893
  • Title

    Generation of nyquist sinc pulses using intensity modulators

  • Author

    Soto, Marcelo A. ; Alem, Mehdi ; Shoaie, Mohammad Amin ; Vedadi, A. ; Bres, C.-S. ; Thevenaz, Luc ; Schneider, T.

  • Author_Institution
    Group for Fibre Opt. (GFO), EPFL Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    9-14 June 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Optical sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses are produced based on the generation of an ideal frequency comb using cascaded intensity modulators. Nyquist pulses with 9.8-ps temporal width, 82-fs jitter and more than 40 dB SNR are achieved.
  • Keywords
    electro-optical modulation; optical communication equipment; optical pulse generation; Nyquist sinc pulse generation; SNR; cascaded intensity modulators; ideal frequency comb; jitter; noise figure 40 dB; optical sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses; time 82 fs; time 9.8 ps; Amplitude modulation; Frequency modulation; Nonlinear optics; Optical fibers; Optical pulse generation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6833270