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All-optical signal processing for linearity enhancement of Mach–Zehnder modulators

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This paper presents the fundamental principles and recent advances in the field of linearity enhancement of Mach–Zehnder modulators in microwave photonic systems using all-optical signal processing. A review of the fundamentals and applications that implement the linearity improvement is also provided.

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Acknowledgment

This work was partly supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (2012CB315603 and 2012CB315604), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61025004, 61032005, 61321004), the Ph.D. Programs Foundation of Ministry of Education of China (20100002110039), and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2012M520275).

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  1. Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology, Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Xiao-Ping Zheng, Guo-Qiang Zhang, Shangyuan Li, Han-Yi Zhang & Bing-Kun Zhou

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Zheng, XP., Zhang, GQ., Li, S. et al. All-optical signal processing for linearity enhancement of Mach–Zehnder modulators. Chin. Sci. Bull. 59, 2655–2660 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-014-0442-z

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