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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Geneva
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1918-9
