Title :
Measured Noise Performance for Heterodyne Detection of 10-Gb/s OOK and DPSK
Author :
Wree, Christoph ; Becker, Donald ; Mohr, Daniel ; Joshi, Abhay
Author_Institution :
Discovery Semicond., Ewing, NJ
Abstract :
Heterodyne detection of 10-Gb/s nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ) on-off keying and NRZ differential phase-shift keying is demonstrated. The noise performance of the heterodyne receiver with and without the use of an optical preamplifier is experimentally investigated
Keywords :
amplitude shift keying; differential phase shift keying; heterodyne detection; optical fibre communication; optical noise; optical receivers; 10 Gbit/s; differential phase-shift keying; heterodyne detection; heterodyne receiver; noise performance; nonreturn-to-zero DPSK; nonreturn-to-zero OOK; on-off keying; optical preamplifier; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Noise measurement; Optical attenuators; Optical filters; Optical interferometry; Optical mixing; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Stimulated emission; Heterodyning; optical communication; optical modulation; optical noise;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LPT.2006.888035
