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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 17, 2013
Finisar Corporation, Horsham, PA (US);
Suhas P. Bhandare, Levitton, PA (US);
Heider N. Ereifej, Quakertown, PA (US);
Kyu Kim, North Wales, PA (US);
Mark Colyar, New Hope, PA (US);
Finisar Corporation, Horsham, PA (US);
Abstract
A DP-QPSK optical transmitter includes an outer MZM comprising a first parent MZM comprising a first child MZM and a second child MZM that modulates a QPSK signal with a first polarization. A second parent MZM includes a first child MZM and a second child MZM that modulates a QPSK signal with a second polarization. The outer Mach-Zehnder modulator multiplexes the first and second polarization embedded into a dual-polarization QPSK signal generation. A first optical detector detects the QPSK signal generated by the first parent MZM with the first polarization. A second optical detector optical detects the QPSK signal generated by the second parent Mach-Zehnder modulator with the second polarization. A bias control circuit generates bias signals on at least one output that stabilize the DP-QPSK signal in response to signals generated by the first and second optical detector using electrical time division multiplexing.