Electro-optic Modulation for Photonic Networks

Dr. Tetsuya Kawanishi is a Professor in the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Waseda University. He received his PhD in 1007 from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. He has more than 8 years’ teaching on electromagnetics and optical communications at Waseda University, Keio University, and University of Hyogo and 20 years’ research experience in optical device and optical communications at Panasonic, Kyoto University, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), and Waseda University. He also has industry experience at the Production Engineering Laboratory of Matsushita Electric Industrial (Panasonic), and National Institute of Information and Communications Technology.

• Introduction.- Role of optical modulators in lightwave networks.- Basic principles of optical modulation using electro-optic effect.- Optical modulators for various optical modulation formats.- Sideband generation by optical modulation.- Double and single sideband modulation.- Signal processing using optical modulation.- Estimation of optical modulator.- Optical systems using advanced optical modulation.- Conclusion.