Multi-wavelength source using low drive-voltage amplitude modulators for optical communications

被引：99

作者：

Healy, Tadhg ^{[1
]}

Gunning, Fatima C. Garcia

Ellis, Andrew D.

机构：

[1] Natl Univ Ireland Univ Coll Cork, Photon Syst Grp, Tyndall Natl Inst, Cork, Ireland

[2] Natl Univ Ireland Univ Coll Cork, Dept Phys, Cork, Ireland

[3] Versawave Technol Inc, Burnaby, BC V5C5T5, Canada

来源：

OPTICS EXPRESS | 2007年 / 15卷 / 06期

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D O I：

10.1364/OE.15.002981

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

A simple and cost-effective technique for generating a flat, square-shaped multi-wavelength optical comb with 42.6 GHz line spacing and over 0.5 THz of total bandwidth is presented. A detailed theoretical analysis is presented, showing that using two concatenated modulators driven with voltages of 3.5 Vp are necessary to generate 11 comb lines with a flatness below 2dB. This performance is experimentally demonstrated using two cascaded Versawave 40 Gbit/s low drive voltage electro-optic polarisation modulators, where an 11 channel optical comb with a flatness of 1.9 dB and a side-mode-suppression ratio (SMSR) of 12.6 dB was obtained. (c) 2007 Optical Society of America.

引用

页码：2981 / 2986

页数：6

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