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

Tadhg Healy; Fatima C. Garcia Gunning; Andrew D. Ellis; Jeff D. Bull

doi:10.1364/OE.15.002981

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

Tadhg Healy, Fatima C. Garcia Gunning, Andrew D. Ellis, Jeff D. Bull

Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2981-2986
Number of pages	6
Journal	Optics Express
Volume	15
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.15.002981
Publication status	Published - 19 Mar 2007

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Multi-wavelength source using low drive-voltage amplitude modulators
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