PDM-DQPSK Silicon Receiver With Integrated Monitor and Minimum Number of Controls

Author

Doerr, Christopher R. ; Fontaine, Nicolas K. ; Buhl, Lawrence L.

Author_Institution

Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

24

Issue

8

fYear

2012

fDate

4/15/2012 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

697

Lastpage

699

Abstract

We demonstrate a novel polarization-division multiplexed differential quadrature phase-shift keying receiver. It has the minimum number of analog controls and an integrated polarization interference monitor for polarization tracking. It can theoretically tolerate polarization-dependent loss in the link. We achieve ~10 times tracking speed improvement, ~6-dB lower loss, and ~100 times lower average bit-error rate during most of the tracking over our previous work for 43-Gb/s PDM-DQPSK.

Keywords

differential phase shift keying; error statistics; light interference; light polarisation; optical receivers; quadrature phase shift keying; silicon; PDM-DQPSK silicon receiver; Si; analog controls; bit error rate; differential quadrature phase-shift keying receiver; integrated polarization interference monitor; polarization tracking; polarization-dependent loss; polarization-division multiplexing; Bit error rate; Couplers; Interference; Monitoring; Optical polarization; Phase shifters; Silicon; Integrated optics; multiple-input/multiple-output systems; optical polarization; phase-shift keying; silicon; tracking;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2012.2187048

Filename

6148258