Photonic Balancing in DPSK Detection Using Pulse Collision in a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier
Conference: ECOC 2009 - 35th European Conference on Optical Communication
09/20/2009 - 09/24/2009 at Vienna, Austria
Proceedings: ECOC 2009
Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Parsons, Earl; Chaouch, Hacene; Küppers, Franko (College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA)
Lerber, Tuomo von; Mattila, Marco; Weiershausen, Werner; Tervonen, Ari; Tervonen, Ari (Luxdyne Ltd, 02150 Espoo, Finland)
Tervonen, Ari (Dept. of Micro and Nanosciences, Helsinki University of Technology, 02150 Espoo, Finland)
Yang, Jeng-Yuan; Willner, Alan (Ming Hsieh Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA)
Abstract:
We present a new DPSK receiver scheme where counter-propagating pulses collide in a saturated semiconductor optical amplifier, realizing photonically balanced single-ended detection. Decreased fluctuation of the mark level and 1.1-dB increased Q-factor is demonstrated experimentally at 22.3 Gbit/s.