Title :
10 GHz optical receiver using a travelling-wave semiconductor laser preamplifier
Author :
Marshall, I.W. ; O´Mahony, M.J.
Author_Institution :
British Telecom Research Laboratories, Ipswich, UK
Abstract :
A 1.5 ¿m optical receiver with a bandwidth of 10 GHz has been demonstrated. The receiver used a travelling-wave semiconductor laser preamplifier and had an equivalent input noise of 1 pA/¿Hz) with a 3 dB bandwidth of 10 GHz. The estimated sensitivity at 15 Gbit/s was ¿27 dBm.
Keywords :
optical communication equipment; receivers; semiconductor junction lasers; 1.5 micron; 10 GHz; equivalent input noise; optical communications; optical receiver; sensitivity; travelling-wave semiconductor laser preamplifier;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19870735
