A 100-Gb/s noncoherent silicon receiver for PDM-DBPSK/DQPSK signals

Opt Express. 2014 Jan 27;22(2):2150-8. doi: 10.1364/OE.22.002150.

Abstract

An integrated noncoherent silicon receiver for demodulation of 100-Gb/s polarization-division multiplexed differential quadrature phase-shift keying and polarization-division multiplexed differential binary phase-shift keying signals is demonstrated. The receiver consists of a 2D surface grating coupler, four Mach-Zehnder delay interferometers and four germanium balanced photodetectors.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't