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US 6,661,553 B2Granted
Optical modulator which optimizes NRZ modulation
AssigneeAlcatel
InventorsThierry Zami, Denis Penninckx
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Abstract
The invention provides an optical modulator for transmitting data encoded in NRZ mode by modulating the intensity of a light signal, the modulator including means for shaping the light signal including shaping means for producing a signal of low bandwidth from an input control signal, and a laser modulator having a transfer function favoring the extinction time of the resulting light signal.
Claims5
An optical modulator for transmitting data encoded in NRZ mode by modulating the intensity of a light signal, said modulator including means for shaping said light signal including:
- shaping means for producing a signal of low bandwidth from an input control signal, and
- a laser modulator having a transfer function favoring the extinction time of the resulting light signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.