Conference Proceedings

Reinventing optical direct modulation by frequency chirp

D Che, F Yuan, Q Yang, H Khodakarami, Y Wang, J Fang, W Shieh

Asia Communications and Photonics Conference ACP | IEEE | Published : 2016

DOI: 10.1364/ACPC.2016.AF1C.3

Abstract

Frequency chirp used to be a transmission barrier for optical direct modulation (DM) systems. We reinvent DM by treating the chirp as complex modulation, which significantly increases the OSNR sensitivity of DM based coherent systems.

University of Melbourne Researchers

Keywords

Technology
Physical Sciences
Telecommunications
Science & Technology
Optics
Semiconductor-Lasers