[TuP4-F] Poster Session 1

[TuP4-F3] High-Speed Characterization of Parallel Mach-Zehnder Optical Modulators

〇Hugo S. C. Freire¹, Yuya Yamaguchi², Tetsuya Kawanishi^1.2 (¹Waseda Univ., Japan, ²National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)

Keywords:Optical modulators, Advanced Modulation, Coding and Multiplexing, Microwave Photonics

Imperfections in parallel Mach-Zehnder optical modulators would degrade optical signal generation for advanced modulation formats. This paper presents a method to measure the parameters that describe such imperfections and experimentally demonstrates it using high-speed optical measurements.