2.5-Gb/s BPSK Ultradense WDM Homodyne Coherent Detection Using a Subcarrier-Based Optical Phase-Locked Loop

Author

Camatel, Stefano ; Ferrero, Valter

Author_Institution

PhotonLab, Torino

Volume

18

Issue

18

fYear

2006

Firstpage

1919

Lastpage

1921

Abstract

A subcarrier-based optical phase-locked loop is used to build an optical receiver for homodyne coherent detection of wavelength-division-multiplexing 2.5-Gb/s binary phase-shift keying signals. An analysis of the interchannel interference is performed by an evaluation of the effect of channel spacing on the system performance. The presented architecture offers the potential for providing many closely spaced multigigabit channels and enables coherent lightwave technology to become commercially viable

Keywords

channel spacing; homodyne detection; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; optical phase locked loops; optical receivers; phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; 2.5 Gbit/s; BPSK; binary phase-shift keying; channel spacing; homodyne coherent detection; optical receiver; subcarrier-based optical phase-locked loop; ultradense WDM; wavelength division multiplexing; Binary phase shift keying; Channel spacing; Interchannel interference; Optical receivers; Performance analysis; Performance evaluation; Phase detection; Phase locked loops; Phase shift keying; Wavelength division multiplexing; Homodyne detection; optical phase-locked loops; phase-shift keying (PSK); wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.881682

Filename

1683847