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Experimental demonstration of compensating the I/Q imbalance and bias deviation of the mach-zehnder modulator for an RF-tone assisted optical OFDM system
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Experimental demonstration of compensating the I/Q imbalance and bias deviation of the mach-zehnder modulator for an RF-tone assisted optical OFDM system

Wei-Ren Peng, Bo Zhang, Xiaoxia Wu, Kai-Ming Feng, Alan E. Willner and Sien Chi
European Conference on Optical Communication, ECOC, 4729158
2008

Abstract

We demonstrate an equalization technique to compensate for impairments induced by dispersion as well as I/Q imbalance and bias deviation in the MZM. The proposed scheme has a 2 dB improvement in back to back and a 4 dB gain after 800 km SSMF transmission with I/Q imbalance. © 2008 IEEE.

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