Abstract

One of the continuing challenges for analog transmission over optical fiber is the development of linear high-power optical sources. The advent of compact high-powered solid-state lasers has led to the investigation of external modulation with interferometric modulators. These modulators typically have sinusoidal transfer functions, so some type of linearization is required. Johnson and Roussell¹ have demonstrated an optical approach using polarization mixing.

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