A baseband optical down-sampling architecture is experimentally demonstrated where both inphase and quadrature channel are directly accessed using two integrated dual mode-locked lasers. A 2-dB conversion penalty is obtained for a 50 Mbaud QPSK-modulated 2.5 GHz RF signal.
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Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006
Date of Conference: 5-10 March 2006