Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel, to the best of our knowledge, method to our knowledge for generating and accurately measuring Nyquist pulse sequences with an ultra-low duty cycle of only 0.037, which breaks the limitations caused by the noise and bandwidth of the optical sampling oscilloscope (OSO) by using a narrow-bandwidth real-time oscilloscope (OSC) and an electrical spectrum analyzer (ESA). By this method, it is found that the bias point drift of the dual parallel Mach–Zehnder modulator (DPMZM) is the main cause of the distortion of the waveform. In addition, we increase the repetition rate of Nyquist pulse sequences by a factor of 16 by multiplexing the unmodulated Nyquist pulse sequences.

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