Flexible, compact WDM receivers using cascaded optical and electrical down-conversion.

We propose a super-channel flexible wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) receiver architecture. The receiver, which requires no optical filtering, only a pair (I and Q phases) of coherent optical detectors, and an electrical receiver system, can simultaneously recover multiple wavelength-multiplexed channels using cascaded optical and electrical down-conversion. The receiver data capacity increases in proportion to the number of electrical sub-carrier channels.

40Gbit/s coherent optical receiver using a Costas loop.

A highly integrated 40 Gbit/s coherent optical receiver is reported using a Costas loop as a homodyne optical phase locked loop (OPLL). A photonic IC, an electrical IC, and a hybrid loop filter are characterized, and the feedback loop system is fully analyzed to build a stable homodyne OPLL. All components are integrated on a single substrate within the compact size of 10 × 10mm(2), and a 1.

Highly integrated optical heterodyne phase-locked loop with phase/frequency detection.

A highly-integrated optical phase-locked loop with a phase/frequency detector and a single-sideband mixer (SSBM) has been proposed and demonstrated for the first time. A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) has been designed, fabricated and tested, together with an electronic IC (EIC). The PIC integrates a widely-tunable sampled-grating distributed-Bragg-reflector laser, an optical 90 degree hybrid and four high-speed photodetectors on the InGaAsP/InP platform.