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Mach-Zehnder modulator based octupling optical MM-wave 4PSK signal generation for RoF links

XIAOGANG CHEN1,2,* , ZHENGOU HUANG2

Affiliation

  1. School of Electrical and Photoelectronic Engineering, Changzhou Institute of Technology, Changzhou, Jiangsu, 213032, China
  2. Nanfang Communications Technology Corporation Limited, Changzhou, Jiangsu, China

Abstract

Two novel approaches without optical filtering are proposed for octupling optical millimeter-wave (MM-wave) 4PSK vector signal generation, one is based on dual-parallel Mach-Zehnder modulator (DPMZM) and the other is based on integrated MZM. Theoretical analysis and simulation experiments are demonstrated for the two octupling schemes. In DPMZM based scheme, only the +4th-order sideband is modulated by data signal and the -4th-order sideband is un-modulated. While in integrated MZM based approach, only the +3rd-order sideband is modulated by data signal and the -5th-order sideband is un-modulated. RoF Links based on the two proposed schemes are established and 2.5 Gbit/s data transmission performances are evaluated. Both schemes can transmit the generated optical MM-wave 4PSK signal up to 30 Km at BER = 10-9, and the receiver sensitivity of DPMZM based approach is superior to that of integrated MZM based approach.

Keywords

Microwave Photonics, Radio over Fiber (RoF), Frequency octupling, Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM).

Citation

XIAOGANG CHEN, ZHENGOU HUANG, Mach-Zehnder modulator based octupling optical MM-wave 4PSK signal generation for RoF links, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 14, 5-6, May-June 2020, pp.220-223 (2020).

Submitted at: Feb. 27, 2020

Accepted at: June 16, 2020