Title : 
WDM-PDM signal processing based on a silicon polarization insensitive filter
         
        
            Author : 
Yaguang Qin ; Yu Yu ; Lei Xiang ; Jinghui Zou ; Bingrong Zou ; Xinliang Zhang
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Wuhan Nat. Lab. for Optoelectron., Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan, China
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We propose and fabricate a silicon based polarization insensitive scheme consisting of a micro ring resonator and two 2-dimensional grating couplers. For demonstration, simultaneous demodulation for WDM-PDM NRZ-DPSK signals has been achieved successfully with error free, reflecting the good performance and the practicability of the proposed scheme.
         
        
            Keywords : 
demodulation; differential phase shift keying; diffraction gratings; elemental semiconductors; filtering theory; micromechanical resonators; optical fibre networks; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; silicon; wavelength division multiplexing; 2D grating couplers; Si; WDM-PDM NRZ-DPSK signal processing; demodulation; microring resonator; silicon polarization insensitive filter;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Optical Communication (ECOC 2013), 39th European Conference and Exhibition on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
London
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-1-84919-759-5
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1049/cp.2013.1603