Effect of Mach-Zehnder modulator DC extinction ratio on residual chirp-induced dispersion in 10-Gb/s binary and AM-PSK duobinary lightwave systems

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1400-1402

  Walklin, Sheldon ^a,b,c   Conradi, Jan ^a,b,c  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b TRLABS   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bandwidth compression; Chirp modulation; Duobinary signaling; Optical fiber communication; Optical modulation demodulation; Optical propagation in dispersive media.

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; BANDWIDTH COMPRESSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMODULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; LIGHT EXTINCTION; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHASE SHIFT KEYING;

CHIRP MODULATION; DUOBINARY SIGNALING; MACH ZEHNDER MODULATORS;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 0031258619     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.623276     Document Type: Article

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