Optical single-sideband transmitter for various electrical signaling formats

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2059-2069

  Fonseca, Daniel ^a,b   Cartaxo, Adolfo V T ^b   Monteiro, Paulo ^a,c  

^a Siemens Portugal   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICAÇÕES   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Alternate mark inversion (AMI); Nonreturn to zero (NRZ); Optical single sideband (OSSB); Q factor penalty; Sideband suppression ratio (SSR); Spectrally efficient modulation

Indexed keywords

INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION; LIGHT MODULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; TRANSMITTERS;

ALTERNATE MARK INVERSION; NONRETURN-TO-ZERO; OPTICAL SINGLE-SIDEBAND TRANSMITTER; Q-FACTOR PENALTY; SIDEBAND SUPPRESSION RATIO; SPECTRALLY EFFICIENT MODULATION;

OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 33646938707     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2006.872301     Document Type: Article

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