Experimental Study of a Phase Modulator Using an Active Interferometric Device
Dionísio, R.P.
; Reis, C.
;
André, P.S
;
Nogueira, R.N.
;
Teixeira, A.
Experimental Study of a Phase Modulator Using an Active Interferometric Device, Proc IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference - MELECON , La Valletta, Malta, Vol. 1, pp. 1142 - 1146, April, 2010.
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Abstract
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.
