Colorless devices and reception techniques for polarization multiplexed communications

Author

Halir, Robert ; Reyes-Iglesias, Pedro ; Alonso-Ramos, Carlos ; Sarmiento-Merenguel, Dario ; Wanguemert-Perez, Gonzalo ; Cheben, Pavel ; Molina-Fernandez, Inigo ; Ortega-Monux, Alejandro

Author_Institution

ETSI Telecomun., Univ. de Malaga, Malaga, Spain

fYear

2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Future optical networks call for flexible, high performance and low cost coherent optical receivers. We present here several advances towards such receivers, including integrated optical couplers with ultra-broad bandwidth, as well as novel reception techniques and architectures that will enable high performance coherent reception without filtering and polarization splitting elements.

Keywords

light coherence; multiplexing; optical couplers; optical receivers; colorless devices; high performance coherent reception; integrated optical couplers; optical networks; optical receivers; polarization multiplexed communications; reception techniques; ultrabroad bandwidth; Integrated optics; Optical device fabrication; Optical noise; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Signal to noise ratio; OSNR penalty; coherent receivers; colorless operation; multimode interference couplers; polarization splitters; receiver architectures;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2015 17th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Budapest

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2015.7193730

Filename

7193730