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APP PUB NO 20100111543A1
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12531048

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An optical transmitter is of the reflective modulation type and has a means of generating reflection, a mixer for mixing a data stream and a sub-carrier, and an optical modulator for modulating an optical carrier with the output from the mixer in order to avoid optical beat-interference noise arising from, for example, Rayleigh backscattering. The modulator is in one embodiment of the interferometric type such as a Mach-Zehnder Modulator (MZM) operated to suppress the optical carrier at the transmitter output in order to reduce optical beat interference noise. The modulator preferably implements CSS-AMPSK modulation, which suppresses optical beat noise and achieves strong dispersion tolerance, enabling, for example, 10 Gb/s data transmission over 100 km distance without dispersion compensation. The transmitter may have a duobinary encoder, which encodes the data prior to mixing with the sub-carrier.

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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELANDCORK

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Chow, Chi Wai Hsinchu, CN 3 15
Ellis, Andrew Cork, IE 29 127
Talli, Giuseppe Cork, IE 3 15
Townsend, Paul Cork, IE 28 190

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