Double-pass PBS-integrated coherent mixer using silica-based PLC
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Inoue, T.; Kawashima, H.; Nara, K.
- Source
- 2010 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication (OFC/NFOEC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC). :1-3 Mar, 2010
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computing and Processing
Photonics and Electrooptics
Programmable control
Optical receivers
Extinction ratio
Optical fiber polarization
Optical interferometry
Optical modulation
Integrated optics
Optical polarization
Propagation losses
Phase shift keying
- Language
A coherent mixer with double-pass polarization-beam splitters integrated in silica-based PLC is newly developed. It is experimentally confirmed that the developed PLC-chip successfully works in the receiver for 40-Gbit/s dual-polarization quadrature phase-shift keying signal.