• DocumentCode
    3701313
  • Title

    PSA-based phase regeneration of DPSK signals in a silicon germanium waveguide

  • Author

    M. A. Ettabib;K. Bottrill;F. Parmigiani;A. Kapsalis;A. Bogris;M. Brun;P. Labeye;S. Nicoletti;K. Hammani;D. Syvridis;D. J. Richardson;P. Petropoulos

  • Author_Institution
    Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate a polarization-assisted PSA-based phase regenerator in a passive low-birefringence SiGe waveguide at low CW pump power. A PSER of 28.6-dB enables a six-fold reduction in phase-error and BER improvement of approximately 2-dB in the regenerated signal.
  • Keywords
    "Optical waveguides","Phase noise","Bit error rate","Differential phase shift keying","Silicon germanium","Silicon photonics","Optical polarization"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2015.7342011
  • Filename
    7342011