Summary

Optoelectronics and Communications Conference/International Conference on Integrated Optics and Optical Fiber Communication

2007

Session Number:13D3

Session:

Number:13D3-4

An 80-GHz carrier-suppressed optical pulse generator using two cascaded phase modulators followed by a delay-interferometer

Guo-Wei Lu,  Tetsuya Miyazaki,  

pp.672-673

Publication Date:2007/7/9

Online ISSN:2188-5079

DOI:10.34385/proc.49.13D3-4

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Summary:
We propose and experimentally demonstrate a cost-effective 80-GHz carrier-suppressed optical pulse generator. The proposed optical pulse generator uses two cascaded time-interleaved phase modulators driven by only 20-GHz clock signals, and a delay-interferometer following the modulators.