Electro-optic gating arrangement with improved duty cycle

摘要

The device includes an oscillator ( 1 ) to generate an electrical signal of a predetermined frequency and a signal divider ( 2 ) to split the electrical signal into first and second signals. The frequency of the second signal is tripled by tripler ( 3 ) and the tripled second signal is recombined with the first signal at signal adder ( 9 ) to produce a combined electrical signal. This combined electrical signal drives a Mach-Zehnder modulator ( 10 ).