All-optical signal processing for linearity enhancement of Mach–Zehnder modulators

This paper presents the fundamental principles and recent advances in the field of linearity enhancement of Mach–Zehnder modulators in microwave photonic systems using all-optical signal processing. A review of the fundamentals and applications that implement the linearity improvement is also provided.

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