title: Optical minimum-shift-keying transmitter based on a monolithically integrated quad Mach-Zehnder in-phase and quadrature modulator.
abstract: We propose and demonstrate an optical minimum-shift-keying (MSK) transmitter using a single-quad Mach-Zehnder (MZ) in-phase and quadrature modulator, where four sub-Mach-Zehnder modulators are monolithically integrated on a main MZ superstructure. Using the proposed transmitter, a MSK signal at bit rate of B could be successfully generated by orthogonally superposing two low-speed (B/2) carrier-suppressed return-to-zero differential phase-shift-keying streams with a relative time offset, 1/B. MSK signals at bit rate of 20 and 80 Gbits/s were successfully generated using the proposed MSK transmitter. A continuous changed phase trajectory of the obtained MSK was confirmed using a complex spectrum analyzer. The filtering tolerance of the MSK was also characterized using a bandwidth-variable tunable filter.
authors.affiliation: National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo, Japan. gwlu@nict.go.jp
authors.forename: Guo-Wei
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Takahide
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sakamoto
authors.forename: Akito
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chiba
authors.forename: Tetsuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kawanishi
authors.forename: Tetsuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Miyazaki
authors.forename: Kaoru
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Higuma
authors.forename: Junichiro
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ichikawa