Homodyne coherent receiver with phase locking to orthogonal-polarisation pilot carrier by optical injection phase lock loop

Author

Fice, M.J. ; Seeds, A.J. ; Pugh, B.J. ; Heaton, J.M. ; Clements, S.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. Coll. London, London

fYear

2009

fDate

22-26 March 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Phase locking to an orthogonal-polarisation pilot by an optical injection phase lock loop is demonstrated for the first time, enabling homodyne demodulation of 10 Gb/s BPSK with performance close to the LO-ASE limit (OSNR=6 dB/0.1 nm; BER=10^-3).

Keywords

demodulation; error statistics; homodyne detection; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; optical phase locked loops; optical receivers; optical signal detection; phase shift keying; superradiance; BER; BPSK; LO-ASE limit; OSNR; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; demodulation; homodyne coherent receiver; optical injection phase lock loop; orthogonal-polarisation pilot carrier; Amplitude modulation; Amplitude shift keying; Optical feedback; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Phase estimation; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Quadrature phase shift keying; (060.1660) Coherent communications; (060.2920) Homodyning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication - incudes post deadline papers, 2009. OFC 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2606-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-865-0

Type

conf

Filename

5032786