{"title":"The effect of a Mach-Zehnder modulator's traveling-wave electrode loss on a photonic link's noise figure","authors":"E. Ackerman, C. Cox","doi":"10.1109/MWP.2003.1422909","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The lowest achievable noise figure for an amplifierless photonic link using a traveling-wave external modulator is derived, assuming perfect, passive impedance matching. Expressions applicable to both lossless and lossy traveling-wave electrodes are presented.","PeriodicalId":432014,"journal":{"name":"MWP 2003 Proceedings. International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics, 2003.","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2003-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"MWP 2003 Proceedings. International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics, 2003.","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MWP.2003.1422909","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The lowest achievable noise figure for an amplifierless photonic link using a traveling-wave external modulator is derived, assuming perfect, passive impedance matching. Expressions applicable to both lossless and lossy traveling-wave electrodes are presented.