Stokes-vector direct detection for optical communications

William Shieh; An Li; Di Che; Feng Yuan; Hamid Khodakarami

doi:10.1117/12.2256452

28 January 2017 Stokes-vector direct detection for optical communications

William Shieh, An Li, Di Che, Feng Yuan, Hamid Khodakarami

Proceedings Volume 10130, Next-Generation Optical Communication: Components, Sub-Systems, and Systems VI; 101300G (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2256452
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2017, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

To cope with the exponential growth of the Internet traffic, optical communications has advanced by leaps and bounds. For several decades, Intensity modulation with direct detection (IM-DD) dominates the commercial short-reach optical communications. However, when upgrading the data-rate distance product to 1000 Gb/s·km per wavelength and beyond, IM-DD faces severe performance barrier. Aiming to improve the electrical SE and extend the transmission distance, advanced DD modulation formats have been proposed through a so-called self-coherent (SCOH) approach, where a carrier is transmitted together with the signal to achieve a linear mapping between the electrical baseband signal and the optical field. In that way, the impact of the CD can be removed from the received signal, greatly extending the transmission distance of the DD system. Particularly, Stokes-vector direct detection (SV-DD) has been proposed to realize linear complex optical channels as well as enhance the electrical spectral efficiency and transmission reach. In this talk, we present the principle and discuss the performance of SV-DD systems.

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William Shieh, An Li, Di Che, Feng Yuan, and Hamid Khodakarami "Stokes-vector direct detection for optical communications", Proc. SPIE 10130, Next-Generation Optical Communication: Components, Sub-Systems, and Systems VI, 101300G (28 January 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2256452

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