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Measurement of the chirp parameter of electro-optic modulators by comparison of the phase between two sidebands
Lian-Shan Yan1, Qian Yu, Alan E Willner
1Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-2565, USA. lianshay@usc.edu
Optics Letters
|July 26, 2003
Abstract:
We propose and demonstrate a simple technique for the measurement of the magnitude and sign of the chirp parameter of electro-optic modulators, using phase comparison between two optically filtered vestigial sidebands generated from 10-GHz sinusoidal signals. We show the analytical, simulation, and experimental results of this approach.

