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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2005
Amarildo C. Vieira, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Mani Ramachandran, San Jose, CA (US);
Amarildo C. Vieira, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Mani Ramachandran, San Jose, CA (US);
General Instrument Corporation, Horsham, PA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus is provided for reducing clipping arising in an optical transmitter. The method begins by generating a frequency multiplexed sub-carrier signal onto which information is modulated at a plurality of different sub-carrier frequencies. The method continues by decorrelating in phase at least some pulses that are formed when two or more of the different sub-carrier frequencies are in phase with one another. An optical output produced by a laser is modulated in accordance with the frequency multiplexed sub-carrier signal after at least some of the pulses have been decorrelated in phase.