Optical transmitter for transmitting a multilevel amplitude-shift-keying modulated signal
A technology of optical transmitter and modulation signal, which is applied in the field of optical communication system and can solve the problems of expensive
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[0034] figure 1 An optical transmitter 1 is shown for generating a 100 Gb / s modulated optical signal based on 4-level amplitude keying (4-ASK). Such a 4-ASK modulated signal can be used for short distance transmission using direct detection.
[0035] The transmitter 1 comprises a binary signal generator 2 which generates four NRZ-encoded binary streams 3 at a clock rate of 28 GHz. Two multiplexers 4 are arranged to receive two binary streams 3 each. The multiplexer 4 is driven by a 56GHz clock signal 5 to interleave the two binary streams 3 into a 56Gb / s NRZ encoded binary stream 6 . The two resulting 56Gb / s binary streams 6 are fed to a 2-bit DAC 7 which generates a 4-level drive signal I and a complementary 4-level signal I to drive the push-pull mode The Mach-Zehnder modulator 8 (MZM) in .
[0036] The push-pull mode means that binary driving signals having opposite phases to each other are input to the data input terminal and the reverse data input terminal of the MZM ...
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