Hybrid-Integrated Polarization Diverse Coherent Receiver Based on Polymer PLC

作者:Wang, Jin*; Kroh, Marcel; Richter, Thomas; Theurer, Abongwa; Matiss, Andreas; Zawadzki, Crispin; Zhang, Ziyang; Schubert, Colja; Steffan, Andreas; Grote, Norbert; Keil, Norbert
来源:IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2012, 24(19): 1718-1721.
DOI:10.1109/LPT.2012.2213299

摘要

A dual-polarization coherent receiver using polymer planar lightwave circuit technology is demonstrated for the first time. It comprises optical 90 hybrids on the basis of polymer waveguides, polarization beam-splitting thin-film elements, and photodetectors made of InGaAsP/InP. The chip size fits into the existing receiver package standards. The receiver assembly shows a high polarization extinction ratio (>25 dB over C-band) and is successfully operated in system experiments with 16-quadrature-amplitude modulation and quadrature phase-shift keying modulation up to 112 Gb/s.

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