• 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[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2010, 8(5): 454 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.
    Ying Zhao, Xiaoping Zheng, Hanyi Zhang, Bingkun Zhou. UWB-over-Fiber transmission system using a dual-output Mach-Zehnder modulator[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2010, 8(5): 454
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