Optoelectronics Letters, Volume. 10, Issue 1, 21(2014)

A novel auto-bias control scheme for stabilizing lithium niobate Mach-Zehnder modulator at any operating point

Jin-jing TAO*, Yang-an ZHANG, Jin-nan ZHANG, Xue-guang YUAN, Yong-qing HUANG, and Yu-peng LI
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  • State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications,Beijing 100876, China
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    In this paper, we propose and experimentally demonstrate an auto-bias control scheme for stabilizing a lithium niobate (LN) Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) at any operating point along the power transmission curve. It is based on that the bias drift would change the operating point and result in varying the output optical average power of the Mach-Zehnder modulator and its first and second derivatives. The ratio of the first to the second derivative of the output optical average power is used in the proposed scheme as the key parameter. The experimental results show that the output optical average power of the LN MZM hardly changes at the desired operating point, and the maximum deviation of output optical average power is less than ±4%.

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    TAO Jin-jing, ZHANG Yang-an, ZHANG Jin-nan, YUAN Xue-guang, HUANG Yong-qing, LI Yu-peng. A novel auto-bias control scheme for stabilizing lithium niobate Mach-Zehnder modulator at any operating point[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2014, 10(1): 21

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    Paper Information

    Received: Sep. 12, 2013

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Oct. 12, 2017

    The Author Email: Jin-jing TAO (taojinjing@bupt.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s11801-014-3161-4

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