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Calibrated Monolithically Integrated 90 $^{\circ} $ Downconverter for Colorless Operation in the C+L Band
- Source :
- IEEE Photonics Journal, Vol 7, Iss 2, Pp 1-10 (2015)
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- IEEE, 2015.
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Abstract
- We propose a 90° hybrid-based monolithically integrated coherent receiver suitable for colorless operation in the complete C- and L-band (1530-1625 nm). In-phase and quadrature (IQ) signal components are obtained from a calibrated analog IQ recovery circuit, which adequately combines all the four photocurrents at the output of the 90° hybrid nearly cancelling the baseband interference from the self-beating of adjacent wavelength division multiplexing channels. We numerically demonstrate that the proposed downconverter supports colorless reception of 128 channels with 16-quadrature amplitude modulation at 112 Gbps in the C+L band. Aside from this, this receiver exhibits a noticeable dynamic range, thereby not requiring a variable optical attenuator on the signal path, and it is pretty robust under realistic fabrication errors of the optoelectronic chip.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19430655
- Volume :
- 7
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- IEEE Photonics Journal
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.47821f90e42dd91128bb35cd045ee
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOT.2015.2409091