Measurement of Second Harmonic Distortion of the Detected Signal in an IM-DD Fiber Optic Link when the input IM is second harmonic contaminated

Authors

  • Chiranjib Ghosh Visva-Bharati University
  • Taraprasad Chattopadhyay Visva-Bharati University

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https://doi.org/10.4302/photon.%20lett.%20pl.v7i3.580

Abstract

In this letter, we have measured second harmonic distortion of the detected optical signal in an IM-DD fiber optic link when the input intensity modulation RF signal contains a small amount of second harmonic distortion. The plot of output vs. input second harmonic distortion is linear. The output second harmonic distortion is smaller than the input second harmonic distortion. This is due to the existence of a small negative slope in the modulation response of the FP laser diode over the 100MHz÷200MHz frequency band.

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Author Biographies

Chiranjib Ghosh, Visva-Bharati University

Research scholar

Taraprasad Chattopadhyay, Visva-Bharati University

Professor of Physics, SMIEEE

Department of Physics

 

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Published

2015-09-30

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C. Ghosh and T. Chattopadhyay, “Measurement of Second Harmonic Distortion of the Detected Signal in an IM-DD Fiber Optic Link when the input IM is second harmonic contaminated”, Photonics Lett. Pol., vol. 7, no. 3, pp. pp. 84–86, Sep. 2015.

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