10 Gb/s Coherent System Deploying Stable, Low Linewidth Phase Locked Loop (2006)

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D. Becker, C. Wree, D. Mohr, and A. Joshi
Discovery Semiconductors, Inc.
119 Silvia Street
Ewing, New Jersey, 08628, USA

ABSTRACT

We demonstrate a coherent heterodyne receiver module with -31 dBm sensitivity for unpreamplified 10 Gb/s on/off keying. An automatic frequency control loop was implemented for field deployability and operational simplicity and reliability.

* Paper presented at the IEEE Avionics, Fiber-Optics and Photonics Conference, Annapolis, Maryland, USA, 2006, paper WB4.