IEICE Electronics Express
Online ISSN : 1349-2543
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An 80-GHz chirp-free carrier-suppressed optical pulse generator using cascaded 20-GHz clock-driven Mach-Zehnder modulators
Guo-Wei LuTetsuya Miyazaki
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2008 Volume 5 Issue 1 Pages 1-5

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We propose and experimentally demonstrate a chirp-free carrier-suppressed optical pulse generator using a simple and cost-effective approach. An 80-GHz carrier-suppressed optical pulse train was successfully obtained by using two cascaded 20-GHz clock-driven dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulators. Compared with the conventional scheme using 40-GHz clock driving signal to generate an 80-GHz pulse train, the proposed scheme is cost-effective and scalable to high repetition rate pulse generation by using low-speed devices.

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