Conference Proceedings

Reduction of Third-Order Intermodulation Distortions for Optical Single Sideband Modulated Signals

Christina Lim, Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas, Kalun Lee, Dalma Novak, Rod Waterhouse

2006 European Conference on Optical Communications | IEEE | Published : 2006

Abstract

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a technique to reduce intermodulation distortions (IMD) for fiber-radio systems incorporating optical single sideband modulation. Our results show a IMD suppression of 9 dB using three-tone tests.