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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 12, 1997
Telecommunications Research Laboratories, Edmonton, CA;
Abstract
Bandwidth reduction methods and apparatus that offset the effects of dispersion on a signal transmitted through an optical fiber. The apparatus and methods employ a generator of modulated optical signals in cascade with a modulator. One of the generator and the modulator may be an optical intensity or amplitude modulator and the other a phase (or frequency) modulator. With the application of specific signals, the cascaded generator and modulator produce an optical signal with reduced energy in one half of the transmission bandwidth. One important benefit in the method is the fact that by exploiting the less obvious spectral characteristics of single sideband signals, a simple modulator design is achieved. All of the designs exploit a method of generating analytic signals via hybrid modulation.