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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications

Measurement of Complex Waveforms in Wide Wavelength Range by Using Wavelength-Swept Light Source and Linear Optical Sampling

Sougo SHIMIZU, Chao ZHANG, Fumihiko ITO

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This paper describes a method to evaluate the modulated waveforms output by a high-speed external phase modulator over a wide wavelength range by using linear optical sampling (LOS) and a wavelength-swept light source. The phase-modulated waveform is sampled by LOS together with the reference signal before modulation, and the modulation waveform is observed by removing the phase noise of the light source extracted from the reference signal. In this process, the frequency offset caused by the optical-path length difference between the measurement and reference interferometers is removed by digital signal processing. A pseudo-random binary-sequence modulated signal is observed with a temporal resolution of 10ps. We obtained a dynamic range of ∼40dB for the measurement bandwidth of 10 nm. When the measurement bandwidth is expanded to entire C-Band (∼35nm), the dynamic ranges of 37∼46dB were observed, depending on the wavelengths. The measurement time was sub-seconds throughout the experiment.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E105-B No.7 pp.797-804
Publication Date
2022/07/01
Publicized
2021/12/28
Online ISSN
1745-1345
DOI
10.1587/transcom.2021EBP3132
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Fiber-Optic Transmission for Communications

Authors

Sougo SHIMIZU
  Shimane University
Chao ZHANG
  Shimane University
Fumihiko ITO
  Shimane University

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