Title :
Integrated limiting balanced photoreceiver for 43 Gbit/s DPSK transmission
Author :
Umbach, Andreas ; Schramm, Carsten ; Jacumeit, Gerald ; Sinsky, Jeffery H. ; Adamiecki, Andrew L. ; Benz, Andreas ; Paschke, Peter
Author_Institution :
U2T Photonics AG, Berlin, Germany
Abstract :
A novel limiting balanced photoreceiver comprising a dual photodiode chip and a SiGe based limiting amplifier achieves a 12.9 dB OSNR sensitivity at 0 dBm optical input power providing significant cost savings due to reduced optical pre-amplification.
Keywords :
Ge-Si alloys; differential phase shift keying; integrated optics; optical fibre communication; optical limiters; optical receivers; photodiodes; semiconductor materials; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 43 Gbit/s; DPSK transmission; OSNR sensitivity; SiGe; SiGe based limiting amplifier; balanced photoreceiver; dual photodiode chip; integrated limiting; optical preamplification;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1
