Coherent optical receiver with widely tunable local oscillator laser

Christoph Wree; Dan Mohr; Don Becker; Abhay Joshi

doi:10.1117/12.718449

7 May 2007 Coherent optical receiver with widely tunable local oscillator laser

Christoph Wree, Dan Mohr, Don Becker, Abhay Joshi

Proceedings Volume 6572, Enabling Photonics Technologies for Defense, Security, and Aerospace Applications III; 657204 (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.718449
Event: Defense and Security Symposium, 2007, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Recently, there has been a renewed interest in coherent optical detection. The reasons for this are: a) coherent optical receivers achieve high receiver sensitivities; b) multilevel modulation formats can be detected very efficiently; c) optical WDM systems with high spectral efficiency can be implemented; and d) preservation of the optical phase allows electrical equalizers to efficiently compensate optical channel impairments. These advantages of coherent optical detection over direct detection can be used to overcome some of the obstacles that limit the data capacity and the reach of current direct detection systems, both fiber and free-space based. The essential part of the coherent optical receiver is the optical local oscillator (LO) laser. It has to provide a high optical output power with low linewidth and low relative intensity noise (RIN). With a widely tunable LO laser a frequency-agile receiver can be constructed. To determine the best candidates for tunable LO lasers, different laser technologies are discussed in terms of output power, power variation, electrical power dissipation, switching time, control leads, package dimensions, tuning range, linewidth and RIN. A heterodyne receiver to detect 2.5 Gb/s and 10 Gb/s signals has been implemented with a standard distributed feed back (DFB) laser. Upgrades of the coherent receiver with a widely tunable LO will be presented. Experimental comparison of the LO lasers and their impact on the receiver sensitivity will be shown.

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Christoph Wree, Dan Mohr, Don Becker, and Abhay Joshi "Coherent optical receiver with widely tunable local oscillator laser", Proc. SPIE 6572, Enabling Photonics Technologies for Defense, Security, and Aerospace Applications III, 657204 (7 May 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.718449

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Receivers

Tunable lasers

Free space optics

Wavelength division multiplexing

Data modeling

Oscillators

Channel projecting optics

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