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Opt Express. 2011 Dec 12;19(26):B166-72. doi: 10.1364/OE.19.00B166.

Dual-quadrature coherent receiver for 100G Ethernet applications based on polymer planar lightwave circuit.

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Jin Wang, Marcel Kroh, Abongwa Theurer, Crispin Zawadzki, Detlef Schmidt, Reinhold Ludwig, Matthias Lauermann, Ziyang Zhang, Andreas Beling, Andreas Matiss, Colja Schubert, Andreas Steffan, Norbert Keil, Norbert Grote

Affiliations

  1. Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Einsteinufer 37, D-10587 Berlin, Germany. [email protected]

PMID: 22274014 DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.00B166

Abstract

A dual-quadrature coherent receiver based on a polymer planar lightwave circuit (PLC) is presented. This receiver comprises two separate optical 90°-hybrid chips made of polymer waveguides and hybridly integrated with InGaAs/InP photodiode (PD) arrays. The packaged receiver was successfully operated in 112 Gbit/s dual-polarization quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK) transmission experiments. In back-to-back configuration the OSNR requirement for a BER value of 10(-3) was 15.1 dB which has to be compared to a theoretical limit of 13.8 dB.

© 2011 Optical Society of America

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