Healy, Tadhg, Garcia Gunning, Fatima C., Ellis, Andrew D. and Bull, Jeff D. (2007). Multi-wavelength source using low drive-voltage amplitude modulators for optical communications. Optics express, 15 (6), pp. 2981-2986.
Abstract
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.
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| Last Modified: | 17 Oct 2024 15:34 |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Nov 2013 11:00 |
| Published Date: | 2007-03-19 |
| Authors: |
Healy, Tadhg
Garcia Gunning, Fatima C. Ellis, Andrew D. Bull, Jeff D. |
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