Experimental study of a phase modulator using an active interferometric device

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Dionísio, Rogério Pais
Reis, Cláudia
André, Paulo
Nogueira, Rogério
Teixeira, António

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DIONISIO, Rogério [et al] - Experimental study of a phase modulator using an active interferometric device. In IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference,15, La Valleta, 26-28 Abril 2010. La Valleta: IEEE , 2010. p. 1142-1146

Experimental study of a phase modulator using an active interferometric device

Mach-Zehnder interferometers
Optical modulation
Semiconductor optical amplifiers

2010-12-15T17:05:33Z
2010-12-15T17:05:33Z
2010-04-26

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A novel architecture for an optical phase modulator is presented and experimentally demonstrated. This approach relies on a commercially available integrated Mach- Zehnder interferometer structure with Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (MZI-SOA) and it is based in cross-phase modulation effect (XPM). The feasibility of the proposed optical phase modulator is experimentally investigated using different scenarios of input power and bit rates.

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