Optical transmission system

Details Optical transmission system Optical transmission system

2008-04-21

2009-06-02

Healy, Brian M (Department: 2883)

Optical waveguides

Directional optical modulation within an optical waveguide

Light intensity dependent

C385S002000, C385S004000, C385S008000, C385S014000, C385S040000, C385S140000, C385S129000, C398S182000, C398S186000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07542631

ABSTRACT:
An optical transmission system which provides bandwidth restricted optical signal comprises an input terminal (10) for accepting an electrical binary signal, an amplifier (12) for amplifying said electrical binary signal to the level requested for operating an electrical-optical converter (16) such as a Mach Zehnder light modulator, a bandwidth restriction means (14) which is for instance a low pass filter for restricting bandwidth of said electrical binary signal, and an electrical-optical conversion means (16) such as a Mach Zehnder light modulator for converting electrical signal to optical signal. Because of the location of the low pass filter (14) between an output of the amplifier (12) and the Mach Zehnder light modulator (16), the amplifier (12) may operate in saturation region to provide high level output signal enough for operating the Mach Zehnder light modulator, and a signal shaped by the low pass filter (14) is applied to the Mach Zehnder light modulator (16) with excellent waveform. The invention is useful for long distance, large capacity and low cost optical transmission system.

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