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
Author Affiliations
  • State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications,Beijing 100876, China
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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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