Title :
Suppressed XMD in multi-carrier, RF-amplified RF photonic link by cascaded MZMs
Author :
Xiaodong Liang ; Feifei Yin ; Yitang Dai ; Jianqiang Li ; Kun Xu
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. of Inf. Photonics & Opt. Commun., Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Beijing, China
Abstract :
We experimentally demonstrate the elimination of cross-modulation distortion (XMD) in multicarrier, intensity-modulation direct-detection (IMDD) analog photonic links by cascaded Mach-Zehnder modulators (MZMs). XMD, from both the MZMs and electrical amplifiers, is suppressed by 33 dB.
Keywords :
intensity modulation; optical communication equipment; optical links; optical modulation; radio links; cascaded MZM; cascaded Mach-Zehnder modulators; cross-modulation distortion; electrical amplifiers; multicarrier RF-amplified RF photonic link; multicarrier intensity-modulation direct-detection analog photonic links; Amplitude modulation; Nonlinear distortion; Optical fiber amplifiers; Photonics; RF signals; Radio frequency;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
