Demonstration of CoWDM using DPSK modulator array with injection-locked lasers

21 January 2010

journal article
research article
Published by Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in Electronics Letters

Vol. 46 (2) , 150-152
https://doi.org/10.1049/el.2010.2308

Abstract

A practical implementation of coherent wavelength division multiplexing (CoWDM) is demonstrated for the first time using injection-locked lasers and a DPSK modulator array. For a 31.99 Gbit/s system (three subcarriers at 10.664 Gbit/s) the null-to-null spectral bandwidth was only 42.656 GHz and the average receiver sensitivity measured was −33.5 dBm when all subcarrier phases were optimised.

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