Title :
Coherent receiver for 100G Ethernet applications based on polymer planar lightwave circuit
Author :
Kroh, Marcel ; Wang, Jin ; Theurer, Abongwa ; Zawadzki, Crispin ; Schmidt, Detlef ; Ludwig, Reinhold ; Lauermann, Mattias ; Beling, Andreas ; Matiss, Andreas ; Schubert, Colja ; Steffan, Andreas ; Keil, Norbert ; Grote, Norbert
Author_Institution :
u2t photonics AG, Berlin, Germany
Abstract :
A novel dual-quadrature coherent receiver based on a polymer planar lightwave circuit is presented. The packaged receiver is successfully operated in 112 Gb/s DP-QPSK transmission experiments showing only 1.3 dB penalty compared to theory.
Keywords :
optical fibre LAN; optical receivers; quadrature phase shift keying; DP-QPSK transmission; Ethernet; dual-quadrature coherent receiver; packaged receiver; polymer planar lightwave circuit; Assembly; Bit error rate; Optical waveguides; Photodetectors; Polymers; Receivers; Signal to noise ratio;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Geneva
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1918-9