In this chapter we discuss design issues related to optical transmitters. An optical transmitter acts as the interface between the electrical and optical domains by converting electrical signals to optical signals. For digital transmitters, the optical output must conform to specifications such as optical power, extinction ratio, rise and fall time, and jitter. In analog transmitters, the optical output must faithfully regenerate the input in terms of linearity, bandwidth, phase delay, etc. It is the responsibility of the designer to ensure that the transmitter meets all the relevant requirements for the intended application of the design.
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Part of the reason for difficulty of ER control is that ER itself is a quantity hard to measure (and even define) beyond a limited accuracy. See Chapter 11 for further discussion of ER measurements.
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Azadeh, M. (2009). Optical Transmitter Design. In: Fiber Optics Engineering. Optical Networks. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0304-4_8
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