Optical Delay Interferometers and their Application for Self-coherent Detection

• Main Author: Li, Jingshi (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: KIT Scientific Publishing 2013
• Series: Karlsruhe Series in Photonics and Communications / Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics (IPQ)
• Subjects: Technology: general issues; optical communications; optics; interferometer; optical receiver; self-coherent detection
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Self-coherent receivers are promising candidates for reception of 100 Gbit/s data rates in optical networks. Self-coherent receivers consist of multiple optical delay interferometers (DI) with high-speed photodiodes attached to the outputs. By DSP of the photo currents it becomes possible to receive...