title: Postcompensation for nonlinearity of Mach-Zehnder modulator in radio-over-fiber system based on second-order optical sideband processing.
abstract: A postcompensation technique for nonlinearity of a Mach-Zehnder modulator in a radio-over-fiber (ROF) system is proposed and experimentally demonstrated based on second-order optical sideband processing and optical carrier band attenuation. The phase of the second-order optical sideband is shifted to suppress the third-order intermodulation distortion (IMD3) in a direct detection ROF link. The optical carrier band is attenuated to make two kinds of origins of IMD3 have equal intensity and cancel each other out. A spurious-free dynamic range of 124.8 dB·Hz(2/3) is achieved, which is about 25 dB more than that without compensation.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory on Integrated Optoelectronics, Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
authors.forename: Guoqiang
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Xiaoping
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Shangyuan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Hanyi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Bingkun
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zhou