SPURIOUS-FREE DYNAMIC-RANGE OF LINEWIDTH-INSENSITIVE COHERENT AM ANALOG OPTICAL LINKS

Authors
FONG TK SABIDO DJM TABARA M KAZOVSKY LG
Citation
Tk. Fong et al., SPURIOUS-FREE DYNAMIC-RANGE OF LINEWIDTH-INSENSITIVE COHERENT AM ANALOG OPTICAL LINKS, Electronics Letters, 29(23), 1993, pp. 2060-2061
Citations number
3
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic
Journal title
Electronics Letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00135194
Volume
29
Issue
23
Year of publication
1993
Pages
2060 - 2061
Database
ISI
SICI code
0013-5194(1993)29:23<2060:SDOLCA>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
The Letter shows that externally-modulated coherent AM optical links a re limited by the third-order nonlinearity of the electrooptical modul ator (EOM) and the EOM nonlinearity reduces the dynamic range by 5-19d B from the theoretical limit. When the received optical power is less than approximately 1 mW, these links have a better dynamic range than conventional direct detection links.