Photodiode nonlinearity measurement using a linearized phase-modulated optical link
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Colladay, Kristina R.; Hastings, Alex; McKinney, Jason D.
- Source
- LEOS 2008 - 21st Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2008. LEOS 2008. 21st Annual Meeting of the IEEE. :282-283 Nov, 2008
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Photodiodes
Phase measurement
Optical fiber communication
Radio frequency
Photoconductivity
Interferometers
Distortion measurement
Delay
Phase modulation
Intermodulation distortion
- Language
- ISSN
- 1092-8081
A new technique to determine the nonlinearity of high-speed photodiodes is presented. Utilizing a linearized phase-modulated link architecture, we directly measure the photodiode intermodulation distortion. Our results agree with those obtained via a phase-locked laser technique.