Dynamic range improvement strategy for Mach-Zehnder modulators in microwave/millimeterwave ROF links

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 17214-17219

  Zhang, Guoqiang ^a   Li, Shangyuan ^a   Zheng, Xiaoping ^a   Zhang, Hanyi ^a   Zhou, Bingkun ^a   Xiang, Peng ^a,b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PLA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT MODULATORS; QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION;

DYNAMIC RANGE; DYNAMIC RANGE IMPROVEMENT; ERROR VECTOR MAGNITUDE; MACH ZEHNDER MODULATOR; NON-LINEARITY; OPTICAL DOMAINS; OPTICAL SIGNALS; OPTICAL SPECTRA; RADIO-OVER-FIBER (ROF); SPECTRAL STRUCTURE; SPURIOUS-FREE DYNAMIC RANGE; THIRD ORDER INTERMODULATION DISTORTION;

RADIO-OVER-FIBER;

EID: 84864140759     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.017214     Document Type: Article

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