DPSK demodulator based on optical discriminator filter

Ilya Lyubomirsky, Cheng-Chung Chien

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters · 2005 · 54 citations · 10 references

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Abstract

A 10-Gb/s differential phase-shift-keying (DPSK) demodulator is demonstrated based on an ultranarrow 6.2-GHz optical discriminator filter. The DPSK demodulator operates with a conventional direct detection p-i-n receiver, while still outperforming on-off keying by 1.2 dB.

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