{"title":"Effect of pilot tone-based modulator bias control on external modulation link performance","authors":"E. Ackerman, C. Cox","doi":"10.1109/MWP.2000.889802","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The dynamic range of an external modulation link in which a pilot tone maintains a Mach-Zehnder modulator at quadrature bias is limited to 64/(/spl pi/ m/sub PT/)/sup 4/, where m/sub PT/ is the modulation depth of the pilot tone.","PeriodicalId":354312,"journal":{"name":"International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics MWP 2000 (Cat. No.00EX430)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2000-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"44","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics MWP 2000 (Cat. No.00EX430)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MWP.2000.889802","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 dynamic range of an external modulation link in which a pilot tone maintains a Mach-Zehnder modulator at quadrature bias is limited to 64/(/spl pi/ m/sub PT/)/sup 4/, where m/sub PT/ is the modulation depth of the pilot tone.