Modulator bias control based on dither signal in 40Gb/s RZ optical transmission system

The bias drift effect in the packaged LiNbO 3 modulator is investigated. The Bessel expansion of the dithered clock shows that the harmonic component equal to the dither frequency can be synchronously demodulated to get the bias drift and avoid the random phase difference between the clock or data and the dither signal. By using the time division control method one control system can track two modulator bias drift in 40Gb/s RZ optical transmission system because the optimum bias point changes very slowly.