Title :
Experimental colorless reception of 16×DP-16QAM at 28 and 30 Gbaud using a Si-integrated coherent receiver
Author :
Chagnon, Mathieu ; Osman, Mohamed ; Zhuge, Qunbi ; Xian Xu ; Poulin, Michel ; Painchaud, Y. ; Pelletier, M. ; Paquet, Carl ; Plant, David V.
Author_Institution :
Photonic Syst. Group, McGill Univ., Montreal, QC, Canada
Abstract :
We experimentally study the performance of a colorless Si-based integrated balanced coherent receiver. The receiver performs error free on 16 DP-16QAM channels after 1280 km, providing 3.2 Tbps. LO power and channel count dependence are investigated.
Keywords :
integrated optoelectronics; optical receivers; quadrature amplitude modulation; silicon; 16×DP-16QAM channels; Si; bit rate 3.2 Tbit/s; channel count; colorless reception; integrated balanced coherent receiver; local oscillator; size 1280 km; Bit error rate; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Receivers; Signal to noise ratio; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), 2013
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0457-0
