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Dynamic Range Improvement of IM-DD Optical Link using Dual-Wavelength Dual-Parallel Modulation

  • Li, Xianghua (School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University) ;
  • Yang, Chun (School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University) ;
  • Zhou, Zhenghua (School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University) ;
  • Chong, Yuhua (School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University)
  • Received : 2014.04.08
  • Accepted : 2014.06.09
  • Published : 2014.08.25
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Abstract

In this paper, we present an incoherent dual-parallel modulation linearized optical link employing two different optical wavelengths. Comparing with previous dual-parallel modulation, this linearization method prevents the recreation of distortion products and can be readily implemented. Furthermore, a dual-wavelength dual-parallel modulation linearized optical link constructed with the commercially available devices is experimentally demonstrated with a spurious-free dynamic range of $122.5dB.Hz^{4/5}$. More than 25 dB suppression of the intermodulation distortion, 15.6 dB improvement of spurious-free dynamic range and 1.5 dB improvement of compression dynamic range are achieved after linearization.

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