Performance limits of 10-Gb/s optical duobinary transmissions using reduced bandwidth single-arm Mach-Zehnder modulators considering residual chirp and dc-bias offset

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 479-481

  Won, Shinhee ^a   Lee, Jaehoon ^a   Kim, Yonghoon ^a   Kim, Seongha ^a   Jeong, Jichai ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Duobinary modulation; Modulation format; Optical communication; Optical transmitter; Simulation; Single arm Mach Zehnder (MZ) modulator; System analysis and design

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; LIGHT MODULATORS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL FILTERS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SWITCHING;

RESIDUAL CHIRP;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0037340902     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2002.807950     Document Type: Article

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