Optimum design for RF-to-optical up-converter in coherent optical OFDM systems

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 483-485

  Tang, Yan ^a   Shieh, William ^a   Yi, Xingwen ^a   Evans, Rob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coherent communications; Nonlinearity; Optical modulator; Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERMODULATION; LIGHT MODULATORS; MODULATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

OPTICAL I/Q MODULATOR; OPTIMAL MODULATOR BIAS POINT;

ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

EID: 34047239037     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.893582     Document Type: Article

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