DocumentCode
2158087
Title
Colorless coherent receiver using 3×3 coupler hybrids and single-ended detection
Author
Xie, Chongjin ; Winzer, Peter J. ; Raybon, Gregory ; Gnauck, Alan H. ; Zhu, B. ; Geisler, T. ; Edvold, B.
Author_Institution
Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA
fYear
2011
fDate
18-22 Sept. 2011
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
3
Abstract
We demonstrate a single-ended colorless coherent receiver using symmetric 3 × 3 coupler hybrids. This allows for colorless reception of fifty-five 112-Gb/s PDM-QPSK channels with 1-dB penalty and the receiver works well in transmission over 2560-km TrueWave-REACH-fiber.
Keywords
multiplexing; optical fibre communication; optical receivers; quadrature phase shift keying; PDM-QPSK channels; TrueWave-REACH-fiber; bit rate 112 Gbit/s; colorless coherent receiver; colorless reception; single-ended detection; symmetric 3 × 3 coupler hybrids; Bit error rate; Couplers; Optical fibers; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Wavelength division multiplexing;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location
Geneva
ISSN
Pending
Print_ISBN
978-1-4577-1918-9
Type
conf
Filename
6065930
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