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
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"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7342011
