Compensation for I/Q imbalances and bias deviation of the Mach-Zehnder modulators in direct-detected optical OFDM systems

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 103-105

  Peng, Wei Ren ^a   Zhang, Bo ^b   Wu, Xiaoxia ^b   Feng, Kai Ming ^c   Willner, Alan E ^b   Chi, Sien ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^c NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Optical fiber communication; Optical modulation; Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)

Indexed keywords

EQUALIZATION TECHNIQUES; FIBER CHROMATIC DISPERSION; I/Q IMBALANCE; IN-PHASE/QUADRATURE-PHASE; MACH ZEHNDER MODULATOR; MONITORING CIRCUIT; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL MODULATION; OPTICAL OFDM; OPTICAL SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STANDARD SINGLE MODE FIBERS; SYSTEM COSTS; SYSTEM DESIGN;

COST REDUCTION; FIBERS; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 67349150354     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2008.2008819     Document Type: Article

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