High responsivity coherent photonic receiver integrating an SOA, a 90° hybrid, and high speed UTC photodiodes

Opt Express. 2017 Oct 16;25(21):25719-25724. doi: 10.1364/OE.25.025719.

Abstract

We demonstrate a single polarization monolithically integrated coherent receiver on an InP substrate with a SOA preamplifier, a 90° optical hybrid, and four 40 GHz UTC photodiodes. Record performances with responsivity above 4 A/W with low imbalance <1 dB and error free detection of 32 Gbaud QPSK signals were simultaneously demonstrated.