TY  - JOUR
  - Healy, T, Gunning, FCG, Ellis, AD
  - 2007
  - March
  - Optics Express
  - Multi-Wavelength Source Using Low Drive-Voltage Amplitude Modulators For Optical Communications
  - Validated
  - ()
  - 15
  - 6
  - 2981
  - 2986
  - A simple and cost-effective technique for generating a flat, square-shaped multi-wavelength optical comb with 42.6 GHz line spacing and over 0.5 THz of total bandwidth is presented. A detailed theoretical analysis is presented, showing that using two concatenated modulators driven with voltages of 3.5 Vp are necessary to generate 11 comb lines with a flatness below 2dB. This performance is experimentally demonstrated using two cascaded Versawave 40 Gbit/s low drive voltage electro-optic polarisation modulators, where an 11 channel optical comb with a flatness of 1.9 dB and a side-mode-suppression ratio (SMSR) of 12.6 dB was obtained. (c) 2007 Optical Society of America..
DA  - 2007/03
ER  - 

@article{V727339,
   = {Healy,  T and  Gunning,  FCG and  Ellis,  AD },
   = {2007},
   = {March},
   = {Optics Express},
   = {Multi-Wavelength Source Using Low Drive-Voltage Amplitude Modulators For Optical Communications},
   = {Validated},
   = {()},
   = {15},
   = {6},
  pages = {2981--2986},
   = {{A simple and cost-effective technique for generating a flat, square-shaped multi-wavelength optical comb with 42.6 GHz line spacing and over 0.5 THz of total bandwidth is presented. A detailed theoretical analysis is presented, showing that using two concatenated modulators driven with voltages of 3.5 Vp are necessary to generate 11 comb lines with a flatness below 2dB. This performance is experimentally demonstrated using two cascaded Versawave 40 Gbit/s low drive voltage electro-optic polarisation modulators, where an 11 channel optical comb with a flatness of 1.9 dB and a side-mode-suppression ratio (SMSR) of 12.6 dB was obtained. (c) 2007 Optical Society of America..}},
  source = {IRIS}
}