Experimental Demonstration of Reduced Complexity 43-Gb/s RZDQPSK Rate-Tunable Receiver

Conference: ECOC 2007 - 33rd European Conference and Exhibition of Optical Communication
09/16/2007 - 09/20/2007 at Berlin, Germany

Proceedings: ECOC 2007

Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Christen, Louis; Nuccio, Scott R.; Wu, Xiaoxia; Willner, Alan E. (Dept. of Electrical Engineering Systems, University of Southern California)
Paraschis, Loukas (Advanced Technology, Core Routing, Cisco Systems, 170 Tasman, San Jose)

Abstract:
We demonstrate an alternative DQPSK receiver offering reduced complexity through sharing of hardware in the I/Q demodulation paths. Demodulation of 43-Gb/s RZ-DQPSK is demonstrated without penalty relative to a traditional DQPSK receiver. Rate tuning is demonstrated through demodulation of a 21.5 Gb/s RZ-DQPSK signal with the same receiver structure.