Title :
Design of dynamic range enhanced colorless reception systems with coherent balanced receiver
Author :
Xuan He ; Bo Zhang ; Lofland, Rob ; Yang Yue ; O´Neil, Jason ; Schmidt, Ted ; Anderson, Jon ; Pan, Z.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, USA
Abstract :
We experimentally demonstrate 77-channel 127-Gb/s PM-QPSK colorless system achieves, with <;1 dB SNR penalty, -17 to -6 dBm/channel dynamic-range with relaxed 12 dBm LO power. Impacts from TIA saturation and polarization effects are also shown.
Keywords :
optical receivers; quadrature phase shift keying; PM-QPSK colorless system; TIA saturation; coherent balanced receiver; dynamic range enhanced colorless reception systems; polarization effects; Dynamic range; Gain; Interference; Receivers; Signal to noise ratio; System performance;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-5575-2994-7
DOI :
10.1364/OFC.2014.Th2A.25
