Foreword ....................................................... ix
Preface ...................................................... xiii
Editors ........................................................ xv
Contributors ................................................. xvii
SECTION I Fundamentals .......................................... 1
1 Role and Evolution of Modulators in Optical Fiber
Communication ................................................ 3
Steven K. Korotky
2 Evolution of Digital Optical Modulation Formats ............. 31
Peter J. Winzer and Rene-Jean Essiambre
3 Fiber-Optic Analog Radio Frequency Links .................... 63
Charles H. Cox III and Edward I. Ackerman
4 Overview of Optical Modulators and the Properties That
Affect Transmission System Performance ...................... 93
Gary E. Betts and John C. Cartledge
SECTION II Modulator Technology
5 Electroabsorption Modulators ............................... 129
Haruhisa Soda and Ken Morito
6 Lithium Niobate Modulators ................................. 151
Kazuto Noguchi
7 Indium Phosphide-Based Electro-Optic Modulators ............ 173
Ian Betty
SECTION III Emerging Technologies
8 Gallium Arsenide Modulator Technology ...................... 207
Robert G. Walker and John Heaton
9 Electro-Optic Polymer Modulators ........................... 223
Larry R. Dalton and William H. Steier
10 Silicon High-Speed Modulators .............................. 257
Ansheng Liu, Frederic Y. Gardes, Ling Liao, Rebecca
Schaevitz, Graham Reed, and Mario Paniccia
11 Organic Electro-Optic Crystal Modulators ................... 281
Mojca Jazbinsek and Peter Günter
12 Complex Oxide Electro-Optic Modulators ..................... 307
Yalin Lu
SECTION IV Practical Issues in Modulator Operation
13 Modulator Drivers ......................................... 329
John J. DeAndrea
14 Reliability of Lithium Niobate Modulators ................. 347
Hirotoshi Nagata
15 Bias Control Techniques ................................... 363
Pak S. Cho
SECTION V Applications beyond the Digital Telecom System
16 Broadband Electric Field Sensors .......................... 383
Vittorio M. N. Passaro
17 Passive Millimeter-Wave Imaging Using Optical Modulators .. 399
Yao Peng, Christopher Schuetz, and Dennis W. Prather
18 Optical Beam Forming for Microwave and Millimeter Waves ... 413
Harold R. Fetterman, Seongku Kim, and Matthew
R. Fetterman
19 Electro-Optic Time Lenses for Shaping and Imaging
Optical Waveforms ......................................... 427
Brian H. Kolner
20 RF Photonics-Optical Pulse Synthesizer .................... 455
Hiroshi Murata
21 Optoelectronic Oscillator ................................. 469
Lute Maleki, Danny Eliyahu, and Andrey B. Matsko
22 Electro-Optic Analog-to-Digital Converters ................ 491
Minyu Yao and Hongming Zhang
23 Fiber-Optic Gyroscopes .................................... 505
Karl Kissa and Jeffrey E. Lewis
24 Polarization Control ...................................... 517
Fred Heismann, Suwat Thaniyavarn, and David Moilanen
Index ........................................................ 533
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