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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0262-3
