• DocumentCode
    3701165
  • Title

    In-band OSNR monitor based on 3 × 3 Si-wire MMI coupler

  • Author

    Ken Tanizawa;Keisuke Sorimoto;Keijiro Suzuki;Kazuhiro Ikeda;Shu Namiki;Hitoshi Kawashima

  • Author_Institution
    National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), West 16-1 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8569, Japan
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate a compact in-band OSNR monitor with MMI coupler integrated on SOI wafer. The OSNR monitor achieves fully-passive and modulation-format-independent operation with a measurement error of less than 1 dB for QPSK, 16-QAM, and 64-QAM signals.
  • Keywords
    "Signal to noise ratio","Optical noise","Monitoring","Couplers","Adaptive optics","Optical device fabrication","Optical filters"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341860
  • Filename
    7341860