Optical MSK Transmitter using a Monolithically Integrated Quad Mach-Zehnder IQ Modulator

Conference: ECOC 2009 - 35th European Conference on Optical Communication
09/20/2009 - 09/24/2009 at Vienna, Austria

Proceedings: ECOC 2009

Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Lu, Guo-Wei; Sakamoto, Takahide; Chiba, Akito; Kawanishi, Tetsuya; Miyazaki, Tetsuya (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan)
Higuma, Kaoru; Ichikawa, Junichiro (New Technology Research Laboratories, Sumitomo Osaka Cement, Japan)

Abstract:
An optical MSK transmitter is proposed and experimentally demonstrated using a single monolithically integrated high-speed quad-MZ IQ modulator, where four sub-MZMs are integrated on a main MZ superstructure.