Signal Degradation and Excess Insertion Loss of Optical Mach–Zehnder Modulators in the Presence of Electronic Dispersion Compensation

Mach-Zehnder (MZ) modulators are widely used in optical transmitters to generate high-speed optical signals. With electronic dispersion compensation (EDC), the driving signals to MZ modulators change from digital to analog, or continuous waveforms. Consequently, there is signal degradation from thei...

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Main Authors: Xiatao Huang, Xingwen Yi, Mingyue Zhu, Jing Zhang, Zengjie Zhang, Yang Song, Kun Qiu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2017-01-01
Series:IEEE Photonics Journal
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7953482/