• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 8, Issue 5, 454 (2010)
Ying Zhao, Xiaoping Zheng, Hanyi Zhang, and Bingkun Zhou
Author Affiliations
  • State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optics, Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL20100805.0454 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Ying Zhao, Xiaoping Zheng, Hanyi Zhang, Bingkun Zhou, "UWB-over-Fiber transmission system using a dual-output Mach-Zehnder modulator," Chin. Opt. Lett. 8, 454 (2010) Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    A novel scheme for ultra-wideband (UWB) monocycle pulse generation is proposed based on a dual-output push-pull Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM). The MZM is driven by a non-return-to-zero (NRZ) data sequence and biased at the nonlinear point to generate edge-triggered pulses. To combine the complementary pulses forming a monocycle UWB pulse, two schemes are used to implement incoherent summation structure. A proof-of-concept experiment of UWB-over-fiber down-link system is set up. Further, by using digital signal processing (DSP) to calculate the bit error rate (BER), the transmission performance of two system configurations is studied.