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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2002
Ian B. Betty, Ottawa, CA;
Nortel Networks Limited, St. Laurent, CA;
Abstract
In order to provide a low power duobinary modulator for the long reach 10 Gb/s metro space that is relatively small and relatively inexpensive to make, a method of operating a Multiple Quantum Well (MQW) III-V Mach-Zehnder (MZ) optical modulator to have it provide a high-quality duobinary signal is provided. The method of operating the MQW III-V MZ optical modulator provided by the invention makes possible a high-quality duobinary modulator that has substantially balanced 'on' states. That is to say, both duobinary 'on' states are characterized by having respective output signals with substantially equivalent: peak intensities; high extinction ratios; and low frequency chirp.