• DocumentCode
    1338422
  • Title

    OSNR Requirements for Self-Homodyne Coherent Systems

  • Author

    Sjödin, Martin ; Johannisson, Pontus ; Karlsson, Magnus ; Tong, Zhi ; Andrekson, Peter A.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Microtechnol. & Nanosci., Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Goteborg, Sweden
  • Volume
    22
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2010
  • Firstpage
    91
  • Lastpage
    93
  • Abstract
    The optical signal-to-noise ratio requirements for a self-homodyne (SH) coherent system are investigated theoretically and experimentally and compared to intradyne (ID) detection. The beneficial effect of bandpass filtering of the copropagating local oscillator is demonstrated and it is shown that the performance limit for SH and ID systems becomes equal as the filter bandwidth is made small.
  • Keywords
    band-pass filters; homodyne detection; light coherence; optical fibre networks; optical modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; bandpass filtering; copropagating local oscillator; fiber-optic networks; filter bandwidth; homodyne detection; intradyne detection; optical signal-to-noise ratio; quadrature phase shift keying; self-homodyne coherent systems; Intradyne (ID); optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR); quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK); self-homodyne (SH);
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1041-1135
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LPT.2009.2036376
  • Filename
    5339150