Abstract

In this paper, an approach to generate frequency-doubling sinc-shaped optical Nyquist pulses based on external modulation is proposed and demonstrated. First, four flat optical frequency comb (OFC) lines are obtained after optical carrier suppression modulation in a dual-electrode Mach–Zehnder modulator. Then an optical interleaver is introduced to split the phase-locked OFC into two paths, of which one is transmitted to a dual-parallel Mach–Zehnder modulator for quadrupling RF modulation and another is applied to the remodulated signal to acquire comb lines with equal intervals. Thus, a phase-locked 12-line flat OFC with equal frequency intervals and corresponding Nyquist pulses is finally obtained, and Nyquist pulses at 2.5 GHz, 5 GHz, 10 GHz, and 15 GHz are achieved.

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