Versatile waveform generation using single-stage dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulator

Electronics Letters

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 336-338

  Dai, B ^a   Gao, Z ^a   Wang, X ^a   Kataoka, N ^b   Wada, N ^b  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUAL DRIVES; FLAT-TOP; FREQUENCY COMBS; MACH ZEHNDER MODULATOR; SINGLE STAGE; WAVE FORMS; WAVEFORM GENERATION;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 79957567468     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el.2011.0203     Document Type: Article

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