The invention discloses an
optical transmitter supporting multiple modulation formats and a control method. The
optical transmitter comprises a
laser source, two parallel optical modulators, a waveform selection module, a drive amplification module, a bias control module, a master control module and an
optical amplifier. The master control module is connected with the waveform selection module, the drive amplification module and the bias control module and transmits control information. The waveform selection module conducts series-parallel conversion on data to be modulated according to input modulation parameters and generates
clock signals, drive amplification is conducted on the
clock signals, and then the
clock signals are then loaded to the
optical modulator. The bias control module selects a proper bias working point according to the specified modulation format. The modulated optical signals are amplified by the
optical amplifier and then are used as output of the
transmitter. The
optical transmitter can flexibly support multiple modulation formats only by utilizing binary data, switching between multiple modulation formats such as NRZ-2PSK, RZ-2PSK with the duty ratio of 50%, NRZ-QPSK, CSRZ-QPSK and 16
QAM is achieved, and the optical
transmitter is suitable for high-speed and flexible
optical fiber communication systems and networks in the future.