Highly linear radio-over-fiber system incorporating a single-drive dual-parallel Mach-Zehnder modulator

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 1775-1777

  Li, Shangyuan ^a   Zheng, Xiaoping ^a   Zhang, Hanyi ^a   Zhou, Bingkun ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Modulator linearization; radio over fiber (RoF); spurious free dynamic range (SFDR); vector modulation

Indexed keywords

DUAL-PARALLEL MACH-ZEHNDER MODULATORS; ERROR VECTOR MAGNITUDE; MACH ZEHNDER MODULATOR; OPTICAL CARRIERS; RADIO OVER FIBER SYSTEM; RADIO-OVER-FIBER (ROF); SPURIOUS-FREE DYNAMIC RANGE; THIRD-ORDER; VECTOR MODULATION; WORKING POINT;

FIBERS; LINEARIZATION;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 78649402554     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2010.2082516     Document Type: Article

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