학술논문

Monolithic Polarization and Phase Diversity Coherent Receiver in Silicon
Document Type
Periodical
Source
Journal of Lightwave Technology J. Lightwave Technol. Lightwave Technology, Journal of. 28(4):520-525 Feb, 2010
Subject
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Silicon
Optical polarization
Optical receivers
Photonic integrated circuits
Phase detection
Optical beam splitting
Integrated optics
Photodiodes
Germanium
Circuit testing
Crystals
germanium
gratings
integrated optics
integrated optoelectronics
silicon
Language
ISSN
0733-8724
1558-2213
Abstract
In this paper, we realized a monolithic silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC) for polarization and phase diversity coherent detection. The PIC includes two polarization beam splitters, two 90 $^{\circ}$ optical hybrids, and four pairs of balanced photodiodes implemented as integrated germanium detectors. We tested the PIC using polarization-division multiplexed quadrature phase-shift keyed signals at 43 and at 112 Gb/s.