Direct Measurement on Frequency Response of Common Mode Rejection Ratio in Coherent Receiver

Conference: ECOC 2016 - 42nd European Conference on Optical Communication
09/18/2016 - 09/22/2016 at Düsseldorf, Deutschland

Proceedings: ECOC 2016

Pages: 3Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Inagaki, Keizo (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan & School of Fundamental Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan)
Kawanishi, Tetsuya (School of Fundamental Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)
Kanno, Atsushi; Yamamoto, Naokatsu (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan)

Abstract:
We propose a direct measurement method of CMRR frequency response in coherent receivers. Measured CMRR frequency response is drastically improved over 2 to 40 GHz frequency range by tuning the amplitude and skew balance in a coherent receiver under test.