A novel electro-optic technique suitable for modulating broad-band sources
Abstract
An experimental design for broadband audio signal transmissions using electrooptical modulation is described. A birefringent quartz sheet induces a constant step difference in the signal, which proceeds through an electrooptical transverse modulator cut at a 45 deg angle. The modulator changes the step pattern into the form of the data code as a function of voltage. The signal is generated by a white light source whose phase is modulated. Two wave trains leave the emitter, one a reference beam and the other the out-of-step coded beam differentiated by its phase delay. The signal is received through another quartz aperture where decoding is performed as a function of changes in the luminous intensity over the width of the passband. The technique allows simultaneous transmission of multiple signals using one luminous source. An experimental set-up which successfully transmitted two television video signals simultaneously over several meters of optic fiber is described.
- Publication:
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Journal of Optics
- Pub Date:
- December 1984
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0150-536X/15/6/006
- Bibcode:
- 1984JOpt...15..403G
- Keywords:
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- Electro-Optics;
- Light Modulation;
- Multiplexing;
- Optical Communication;
- Signal Transmission;
- Broadband;
- Demultiplexing;
- Television Transmission;
- Optics