Title :
Double-pass PBS-integrated coherent mixer using silica-based PLC
Author :
Inoue, T. ; Kawashima, H. ; Nara, K.
Author_Institution :
FITEL Photonics Lab., Furukawa Electr. Co., Ltd., Chiba, Japan
Abstract :
A coherent mixer with double-pass polarization-beam splitters integrated in silica-based PLC is newly developed. It is experimentally confirmed that the developed PLC-chip successfully works in the receiver for 40-Gbit/s dual-polarization quadrature phase-shift keying signal.
Keywords :
integrated optics; light polarisation; optical beam splitters; optical design techniques; optical materials; quadrature phase shift keying; silicon compounds; SiO2; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; double-pass PBS-integrated coherent mixer; dual-polarization quadrature phase-shift keying; planar lightwave circuit; polarization-beam splitters; silica-based PLC; Extinction ratio; Integrated optics; Optical fiber polarization; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Phase shift keying; Programmable control; Propagation losses;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-884-1
