Third-order intermodulation distortion in an optical downconverter

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Conference object 27 Nov 2002Publisher:IEEEJournal:1998 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest (Cat. No.98CH36192), volume 3, pages 1,229-1,232

Authors: Biernacki, P. D.; Nichols, L. T.; Esman, R. D.;

doi: 10.1109/mwsym.1998.700596

Third-order intermodulation distortion in an optical downconverter

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The first two-tone measurements of third-order intermodulation in a wide-band (1-18 GHz) optical downconverter utilizing cascaded Mach-Zehnder modulators are presented. Intermodulation originates in the RF modulator and is downconverted along with the fundamentals to intermediate frequencies (IF). The third-order intercept in the IF band is measured and agrees well with theory.

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