Demonstration of tunable and automatic frequency/phase locking for multiple-wavelength QPSK and 16-QAM homodyne receivers using a single nonlinear element

Author

Ziyadi, M. ; Mohajerin-Ariaei, A. ; Chitgarha, M.R. ; Cao, Y. ; Almaiman, A. ; Akasaka, Y. ; Yang, J.-Y. ; Xie, G. ; Liao, P. ; Sekiya, M. ; Touch, J. ; Tur, M. ; Langrock, C. ; Fejer, M.M. ; Willner, A.E.

Author_Institution

Ming Hsieh Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

fYear

2015

fDate

10-15 May 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate a tunable homodyne receiver on multiple-wavelength QPSK and 16-QAM channels at 20/30 Gbaud. A single PPLN waveguide is used to frequency/phase lock the signals with their tones. Open eye diagrams with BER measurements are shown.

Keywords

error statistics; lithium compounds; nonlinear optics; optical modulation; optical receivers; optical tuning; optical waveguides; quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; 16-QAM channels; 16-QAM homodyne receivers; BER measurements; LiNbO₃; PPLN waveguide; automatic frequency-phase locking; multiple-wavelength QPSK; single nonlinear element; tunable frequency-phase locking; tunable homodyne receiver; Band-pass filters; Bit error rate; Optical filters; Optical transmitters; Phase shift keying; Receivers; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Type

conf

Filename

7184013