• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.27-32
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• 2015

A flexible and tunable microwave photonic filter based on adjustable optical frequency comb source is demonstrated. We use a combination of a dual parallel Mach Zehnder modulator and an intensity modulator to generate fifteen comb lines with proper weights to implement a desired filter. The optical comb weights, corresponding to the tap coefficients of the filter, are flexibly changed by adjusting the operation parameters of the modulators. The achieved bandwidth and stopband attenuation of the tunable filter are 0.7 GHz and 20 dB, respectively. In addition, we overcome the undesired low frequency suppression appeared in a conventional scheme by applying a dual parallel Mach Zehnder modulator for single sideband suppressed carrier modulation.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제21권6호
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• pp.617-626
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 광혼합 방식으로 서브 밀리미터 및 테라헤츠 대역 연속파 신호를 발생시키는 기법 중 가장 널리 사용되는 광반송파가 억제된 양측 대역 발생 방식(Double Sideband-Suppressed Carrier: DSB-SC)을 이용하여 발생된 연속파(Continuous Wave: CW) 신호의 위상 잡음 개선을 위하여 광신호의 편광과 위상 제어 기법을 제안하고 실험적으로 증명하였다. 광신호의 편광 및 위상 제어 기법은 일반적인 DSB-SC 신호와 DSB-SC 신호에 포함된 광반송파와 동일한 파장과 위상차를 가지며, 광반송파의 편광 성분 중 하나의 편광 성분만을 갖도록 편광제어된 광신호를 결합하여 광혼합하는 방법이다. 실험 및 측정 결과, 서브 밀리미터파 대역 CW 신호의 크기는 1.5 dB 증가하였으며, 위상 잡음 특성은 약 3 dB@10 kHz offset frequency 개선됨을 확인하였다. 따라서 본 논문의 결과는 광신호의 위상 및 편광 성분 제어만으로 광반송파를 효과적으로 억제하여 서브 밀리미터 및 테라헤르츠 대역 CW 신호의 특성을 개선함으로써 광혼합 방법을 이용한 밀리미터파 및 테라헤르츠파 대역 CW 신호 발생기의 저가화를 위한 기본적인 데이터로서 활용 가치가 높다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.261-267
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose and demonstrate a cost-effective technique to upgrade the capacity of dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) networks to a 40 Gb/s line rate using the existing 10 Gb/s-based infrastructure. To accommodate 40 Gb/s over the link optimized for 10 Gb/s, we propose applying a combination of super-FEC, carrier-suppressed return-to-zero, and pre-emphasis to the 40 Gb/s transponder. The transmission of 40 Gb/s DWDM channels over existing 10 Gb/s line-rate long-haul DWDM links, including $40{\times}40$ Gb/s transmission over KT's standard single-mode fiber optimized for 10 Gb/s achieves successful results. The proposed upgrading technique allows the Q-value margin for a 40 Gb/s line rate to be compatible with that of 10 Gb/s.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.232-239
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• 2008

We investigated how the polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) tolerance was degraded by semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)-induced chirp for the 10 Gb/s nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ), duobinary NRZ, return-to-zero (RZ), and carrier-suppressed RZ (CS-RZ) modulation formats. The power penalty was calculated as a measure of the system performance due to PMD for a given SOA-induced chirp. Considering only first-order PMD, all modulation formats have a similar PMD tolerance regardless of SOA-induced chirp. On the other hand, when both first- and second-order PMD are considered, the PMD tolerance of all modulation formats with the exception of the CS-RZ modulation format are degraded by SOA-induced chirp. Among all modulation formats considered here, the NRZ modulation format has the PMD tolerance with the highest sensitivity to SOA-induced chirp. When the peak-to-peak chirp induced by SOAs is $0.28{\AA}$, its PMD tolerance is degraded up to 4 dB for a differential group delay (DGD) of 50 ps. However, the PMD tolerance of the CS-RZ modulation format is largely unaffected by SOA-induced chirp.