Title :
Athermal demodulator for 42.7-Gb/s DPSK signals
Author :
Hsieh, Jay Y C ; Ai, Chiayu ; Chien, Vincent ; Liu, Xiang ; Gnauck, A.H. ; Wei, Xing
Author_Institution :
Optoplex Corp., Fremont, CA, USA
Abstract :
We report an athermal optical-delay-interferometer capable of demodulating any OC-768 DPSK signal on the ITU 50-GHz-grid over the C+L band. Receiver sensitivity of -35.5 dBm is achieved for a 42.7-Gb/s nonreturn-to-zero DPSK signal.
Keywords :
Michelson interferometers; demodulators; differential phase shift keying; optical communication equipment; optical delay lines; 42.7 Gbit/s; 50 GHz; C+L band; ITU grid; athermal demodulator; nonreturn-to-zero DPSK signal; optical-delay-interferometer; receiver sensitivity;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1
