• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 5, Issue 12, 700 (2007)
Yuanshan Liu1、2、*, Jianguo Zhang1、2, and Wei Zhao1、3
Author Affiliations
  • 1State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710068
  • 2Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039
  • 3Department of Electrical, Computer, and Communications Engineering, London South Bank University, London SE16EN, UK
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    Yuanshan Liu, Jianguo Zhang, Wei Zhao. 20-GHz optical pulse source based on cascaded electroabsorption modulators[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2007, 5(12): 700 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    A high-quality low-timing-jitter 20-GHz optical pulse train is generated by using two cascaded sinusoidally driven electroabsorption modulators (EAMs) at very low bias voltage of -0.8 V in conjunction with a tunable distributed feedback (DFB) semiconductor laser. An approximate transform-limited optical pulse, with the pulse width less than 7 ps, the spectral width of 0.3 nm, and the side-mode suppression ratio (SMSR) above 20 dB, is obtained by tuning the optical delay line.
    Yuanshan Liu, Jianguo Zhang, Wei Zhao. 20-GHz optical pulse source based on cascaded electroabsorption modulators[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2007, 5(12): 700
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