Increasing line rate by combining ETDM and OTDM in a semiconductor Mach-Zehnder modulator

Fenghai Liu,Xueyan Zheng,Rune Johan Skullerud Pedersen,Palle Jeppesen,Jim Fraser,John Bainbridge,Mike Cox

Increasing line rate by combining ETDM and OTDM in a semiconductor Mach-Zehnder modulator

2001

Fenghai Liu
Xueyan Zheng
Rune Johan Skullerud Pedersen
Palle Jeppesen
Jim Fraser
John Bainbridge
Mike Cox

Line rate is doubled by combining electrical time division multiplexing (ETDM) and OTDM techniques in a semiconductor Mach-Zehnder modulator. 20 Gb/s optical signal is successfully generated using a 10 GHz commercial module to multiplex two 10 Gb/s signals.

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Time-division multiplexing
Semiconductor
Interferometry
Pulse-width modulation
Electro-optic modulator
Optics
Modulation
Telecommunications
Electronic engineering
Engineering
line rate
optical refraction

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