Title :
Fiber Bragg Grating Balanced DPSK Demodulation
Author :
Christen, Louis ; Lize, Yannick Keith ; Nuccio, Scott ; Yang, Jengyuan ; Saghari, Poorya ; Willner, Alan E. ; Paraschis, Loukas
Author_Institution :
Southern California Univ., Los Angeles, CA
Abstract :
We propose and experimentally demonstrate the utilization of a uniform-FBG for balanced DPSK demodulation. The reflection (transmission) is utilized as a bandpass (notch) frequency-discriminator. An approximate 2.8 dB performance increase is achieved in the balanced configuration
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; band-pass filters; differential phase shift keying; notch filters; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; balanced DPSK signal demodulation; bandpass notch frequency-discriminator; fiber Bragg gratings; notch filters; Band pass filters; Bragg gratings; Demodulation; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Fiber gratings; High speed optical techniques; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2006. LEOS 2006. 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
Montreal, Que.
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9555-7
Electronic_ISBN :
0-7803-9555-7
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2006.278783
