Measured Noise Performance for Heterodyne Detection of 10-Gb/s OOK and DPSK (2007)

Christoph Wree, Member, IEEE, Donald Becker, Daniel Mohr, and Abhay Joshi
Discovery Semiconductors, Inc.
119 Silvia Street
Ewing, New Jersey, 08628, USA

ABSTRACT

Heterodyne detection of 10-Gb/s nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ) ON–OFF keying and NRZ differential phase-shift keying is demonstrated. The noise performance of the heterodyne receiver with and without the use of an optical preamplifier is experimentally investigated.

* Published in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 15-17, January 1, 2007.