Title :
Monolithic InP receiver chip with a 90° hybrid and 56GHz balanced photodiodes
Author :
Runge, Patrick ; Schubert, S. ; Seeger, Angela ; Janiak, Klemens ; Stephan, Jens ; Trommer, Dirk ; Matiss, Andreas
Author_Institution :
Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Inst., Berlin, Germany
Abstract :
We demonstrate a monolithically integrated quadrature coherent receiver PIC on an InP substrate with a 90° optical hybrid and two balanced 56GHz pin-photodetectors. The presented devices enable the use of 56/64Gbaud 16-QAM signals either in the C-band or the L-band.
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; indium compounds; integrated optics; light coherence; optical modulation; optical receivers; p-i-n photodiodes; quadrature amplitude modulation; 16-QAM signals; C-band; InP; L-band; PIC; balanced photodiodes; frequency 56 GHz; monolithic InP receiver chip; photodiodes; pin-photodetectors; quadrature coherent receiver; Bandwidth; Indium phosphide; L-band; Optical fibers; Photodiodes; Receivers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications (ECOC), 2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Amsterdam
