Title :
Integrated polarization-diversity coherent receiver on polymer PLC for QPSK and QAM signals
Author :
Richter, Thomas ; Kroh, Marcel ; Wang, Jin ; Theurer, Abongwa ; Zawadzki, Crispin ; Zhang, Ziyang ; Keil, Norbert ; Steffan, Andreas ; Schubert, Colja
Author_Institution :
Heinrich Hertz Inst., Fraunhofer Inst. for Telecommun., Berlin, Germany
Abstract :
We present an integrated polarization-diversity coherent-receiver module which was fabricated on a polymer planar-lightwave circuit platform. The performance of the device is tested in system experiments with 16-QAM and QPSK modulation up to 112 Gb/s.
Keywords :
light polarisation; optical communication; optical fabrication; optical polymers; optical receivers; quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; 16-QAM; Gb/s; QAM signals; QPSK modulation; bit rate 112 Gbit/s; integrated polarization-diversity coherent receiver; polymer PLC; polymer planar-lightwave circuit platform; quadrature amplitude modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; Bit error rate; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Phase shift keying; Polymers; Signal to noise ratio;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0262-3
