Intermodulation distortion suppression for intensity-modulated analog fiber-optic link incorporating optical carrier band processing

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 23433-23440

  Cui, Yan ^a   Dai, Yitang ^a   Yin, Feifei ^a   Dai, Jian ^b   Xu, Kun ^a   Li, Jianqiang ^a   Lin, Jintong ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b EAST CHINA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

ANALOG FIBER-OPTIC LINK; DISTORTION SUPPRESSION; INTENSITY-MODULATED; OPTICAL CARRIERS; OPTICAL SPECTRA; PHASE-SHIFTING; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS; THIRD ORDER INTERMODULATION DISTORTION;

INTERMODULATION DISTORTION;

EID: 84885441214     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.023433     Document Type: Article

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