{"title":"Monolithic PDM-DQPSK receiver in silicon","authors":"C. Doerr, Long Chen","doi":"10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621418","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We present a monolithic silicon polarization-division multiplexed (PDM) differential quadrature phase-shift keying (DQPSK) receiver front-end. It contains an endless polarization controller, two Mach-Zehnder delay interferometers, two hybrids, and eight photodetectors. We demonstrate 43-Gb/s PDM-DQPSK reception and automatic endless polarization tracking.","PeriodicalId":391144,"journal":{"name":"36th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2010-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"46","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"36th European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621418","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We present a monolithic silicon polarization-division multiplexed (PDM) differential quadrature phase-shift keying (DQPSK) receiver front-end. It contains an endless polarization controller, two Mach-Zehnder delay interferometers, two hybrids, and eight photodetectors. We demonstrate 43-Gb/s PDM-DQPSK reception and automatic endless polarization tracking.