ModBox - Plug and Play Modulation Soluti

Los sistemas ModBox son una familia de transmisores ópticos y unidades de modulación externa en formato de sobremesa y llave-en-mano para aplicaciones de transmisión analógicas y digitales. El diseño del ModBox integra en una sola caja una fuente láser (opcional), una etapa completa de modulación basada en un modulador externo de LiNb03 con su driver RF y circuito de control de bias, junto a una etapa receptora (opcional).

Las ModBox se puieden personalizar a sus necesidades de transmisión específicas y para acomodar una gran variedad de aplicaciones:
- generación de pulsos
- captura de pulsos (pulse picking)
- ensanchamiento espectral
- modulación analógica
- cualquier formato de modulación digital

para ofrecer a ingenieros de sistemas y a científicos una respuesta fiable junto a grandes prestaciones de modulación a alta velocidad en un equipo que simplemente hay que enchufar.

Las diferentes soluciones ModBox que ofrecemos son

12.5Gbps-NRZ: 12.5 Gb/s NRZ 1550 nm Modulation Unit

The ModBox-12.5Gbps-NRZ is a bench-top Modulation Unit dedicated to digital NRZ modulation scheme, and operating in the C-band.

The unit generates a 12.5 Gb/s optical data stream from a user supplied electrical 12.5 Gb/s NRZ data stream, generated for instance by a PRBS generator, The resulting optical data stream features short rise and fall times, low jitter and high Q factor. It is highly stable thanks to the automatic bias control of the internal intensity modulator. The ModBox-12.5-Gbps-NRZ can receive an optional laser source and optical receiver.

12.5Gbps-NRZ-4x1550: 4 Channel 12.5 Gb/s NRZ 1550 nm Modulation Unit

The ModBox-12.5Gbps-NRZ-4x1550 is a 4 channel WDM Modulation Unit dedicated to digital NRZ modulation scheme, and operating in the C-band.
The unit generates 4 x 12.5 Gb/s optical data streams from 4 user supplied electrical 12.5 Gb/s NRZ data streams. The resulting optical data streams feature short rise and fall times, low jitter and high Q factor. They are highly stable thanks to the automatic bias control of the internal intensity modulators.

28Gbps-NRZ-1300: 28 Gb/s NRZ 1310 nm Modulation Unit

The ModBox-28Gbps-NRZ-1300 is a bench-top Modulation Unit dedicated to digital NRZ modulation scheme, and operating in the 1300 nm band.
The unit generates a 28 Gb/s optical data stream from a user supplied electrical 28 Gb/s NRZ data stream, generated for instance by a PRBS generator, The resulting optical data stream features short rise and fall times, low jitter and high Q factor. It is highly stable thanks to the automatic bias control of the internal intensity modulator. The ModBox-28-Gbps-NRZ-1300 can receive an optional laser source and optical receiver.

40Gbps-NRZ: 40 Gb/s NRZ 1550 nm Modulation Unit

The ModBox-40Gbps-NRZ is a bench-top Modulation Unit dedicated to digital NRZ modulation scheme, and operating in the C-band.
The unit generates a 40-44 GB/s optical data stream from a user supplied electrical 40-44 Gb/s NRZ data stream, generated for instance by a PRBS generator, The resulting optical data stream features short rise and fall times, low jitter and high Q factor. It is highly stable thanks to the automatic bias control of the internal intensity modulator. The ModBox-12.5-Gbps-NRZ can receive an optional laser source and optical receiver.

40Gbps-DQPSK 40: Gb/s QPSK 1550 nm Modulation unit

The ModBox-40Gbps-DQPSK is a bench-top Modulation Unit dedicated to digital (D)QPSK modulation transmission and operating in the C-band.
The unit generates a 22 Gb/s - 44 Gb/s optical data stream from two customer supplied electrical 22 Gb/s data streams, generated for instance by two PRBS generators. The resulting optical data stream features short rise and fall times, low jitter and wide opening. The ModBox-40Gbps-DQPSK can receive an optional laser source and an optical receiver with integrated demodulator.

56Gbps-DQPSK: 56 Gb/s QPSK 1550 nm Modulation unit

The ModBox-40Gbps-DQPSK is a bench-top Modulation Unit dedicated to digital (D)QPSK modulation transmission and operating in the C-band.
The unit generates a 28 Gsymb/s - 56 Gb/s optical data stream from two customer supplied electrical 28 Gb/s data streams, generated for instance by two PRBS generators. The resulting optical data stream features short rise and fall times, low jitter and wide opening. The ModBox-56Gbps-DQPSK can receive an optional laser source and an optical receiver with integrated demodulator.

100Gbps-DQPSK-TX: 100 Gb/s QPSK 1550 nm / 1310 nm Transmitter

The ModBox-100Gbps-DQPSK-TX is a bench-top Modulation Unit dedicated to digital (D)QPSK modulation transmission and operating in the C-band.
The unit generates a 50 Gsymb/s - 100 Gbps optical data stream from two customer supplied electrical 50 Gb/s data streams, generated for instance by two PRBS generators. The resulting optical data stream features short rise and fall times, low jitter and wide opening. The ModBox-100Gbps-DQPSK-TX can receive an optional laser source and can be coupled with the ModBox-100Gbps-DQPSK-RX optical receiver unit with integrated demodulator.

100Gbps-DQPSK-RX: 100 Gb/s QPSK 1510 nm Receiver unit

The ModBox-100Gbps-DQPSK-RX is a high data rate DQPSK receiver unit.
It integrates an optical demodulator matched with balanced photodiodes and transimpedance amplifiers, clock recovery circuits and demultiplexers and generates 8 x 12.5 Gb/s NRZ fully reshaped and retimed data streams.

Pulse-1550: 1550 nm 40 dB Extinction Ratio Pulse Generationn Unit

The ModBox-Pulse-1550 generates controlled optical pulses from a continuous optical laser source at 1550 nm and a user supplied pulsed RF signal.
The resulting optical signal offers sharp edges, short rise and fall times and a high contrast (> 30 dB) The ModBox-Pulse-1550 is housed in a 19'' rack; it integrates a LiNb03 intensity modulator (MXER-LN type), a pulse RF driver with a modulator bias control electronics and a power supply. It can receive an optional laser source and optical detector.

Pulse-1053: 1053 nm 30 dB Extinction Ratio Pulse Generationn Unit

The ModBox-Pulse-1053 generates controlled optical pulses from a continuous optical laser source at 1053 nm and a user supplied pulsed RF signal.
The resulting optical signal offers sharp edges, short rise and fall times and a high contrast. The ModBox-Pulse-1053 is housed in a 19'' rack; it integrates a LiNb03 intensity modulator (NIR-MX-LN type), a pulse RF driver with a modulator bias control electronics and a power supply. It can receive an optional laser source and optical detector.

Pulse55dB-1064: 1064 nm 55 dB Extinction Ratio Pulse Generationn Unit

The ModBox-Pulse55dB-1064 generates controlled optical pulses with Very High Extinction Ratio from a continuous optical laser source at 1064 nm and a user supplied pulsed RF signal.
The resulting optical signal offers sharp edges, short rise and fall times and an unparalleled contrast of 50 dB. The ModBox-Pulse55dB-1064 is housed in a 19'' rack; it integrates LiNb03 intensity modulators (NIR-LN type), pulse RF drivers with a modulator bias control electronics and a power supply. It can receive an optional laser source and optical detector.

PulsePick-20 GHz: 1542 nm Pulse picking Modulation Unit

The ModBox-PulsePick-20 GHz allows to pick any pulse or pulse sequence in an incoming 20 GHz 1542 nm pulse train

Pulse-1570/1064-TX: Dual wavelength 1060 nm / 1570 nm 30 dB Extinction Ratio Pulse Generation Unit

The ModBox-Pulse-1570/1064-TX is a dual wavelength transmitter that generates optical pulses at 1570 nm and 1064 nm. The optical pulses width, intensity and repetition rate are user adjustable and exhibit a high stability and repeatability

SpectralBroadening-1053: 1053 nm Spectral Broadening Unit

The ModBox-SpectralBroadening-1053 achieves the spectral broadening of a 1053 nm narrow optical source by modulating its phase via the mean of a very efficient LiNb03 phase modulator.
It creates a number of lines over a spectral width that can reach more than 100 GHz and is used to counter the Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) caused in optical fibers by high fluxes of highly coherent light. The ModBox-PulseBroadening-1053 is a 19'' rackable Modulation Unit integrating a LiNb03 phase modulator (NIR-MPX type) with a high power RF pulse generator.