Characterization of integrated polarization-diversity DPSK demodulator with two-dimensional chirped grating couplers and ring resonators

Author

Chen, Xia ; Li, Chao ; Gao, Ying ; Xu, Lin ; Tsang, Hon Ki ; Shu, Chester

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

fYear

2010

fDate

21-25 March 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We describe the design and experimental results of an integrated polarization-diversity DPSK demodulator. The integration of 2-D chirped grating couplers enabled polarization-diversity operation with two micro-ring resonators which converted the phase modulation to intensity modulation.

Keywords

chirp modulation; demodulation; differential phase shift keying; diffraction gratings; integrated optics; intensity modulation; micro-optics; optical communication equipment; optical couplers; optical design techniques; optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; optical resonators; phase modulation; DPSK; demodulator; intensity modulation; microring resonators; phase modulation; polarization diversity; two-dimensional chirped grating couplers; Chirp; Demodulation; Differential quadrature phase shift keying; Fiber gratings; Optical coupling; Optical fiber couplers; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical ring resonators; Optical waveguides;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-884-1

Type

conf

Filename

5465658