• DocumentCode
    1961118
  • Title

    Homodyne dual-quadrature coherent receiver with injection-locked monolithically integrated local oscillator

  • Author

    Nguyen, Kimchau N. ; Garcia, John M. ; Lively, Erica ; Poulsen, Henrik N. ; Baney, Douglas M. ; Blumenthal, Daniel J.

  • Author_Institution
    Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    4-8 March 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate a homodyne dual-quadrature coherent receiver using a monolithically integrated, injection-locked local oscillator. For BER of 10-3 and 10-5, the required OSNR is improved by 1.5 dB and 5 dB, respectively, compared to a free-running local oscillator.
  • Keywords
    injection locked oscillators; integrated optics; light coherence; optical receivers; free-running local oscillator; homodyne dual-quadrature coherent receiver; injection-locked monolithically integrated local oscillator; monolithically integrated injection-locked local oscillator; Bit error rate; Current measurement; Local oscillators; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Signal to noise ratio;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
  • Conference_Location
    Los Angeles, CA
  • ISSN
    pending
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-0262-3
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6192161
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1961118