Monolithic demodulator for 40-Gb/s DQPSK using a star coupler

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 171-174

  Doerr, Christopher R ^a,b   Gill, Douglas M ^b   Gnauck, Alan H ^a,b   Buhl, Lawrence L ^b   Winzer, Peter J ^a,b   Cappuzzo, Mark A ^b   Wong Foy, A ^b   Chen, Evans Yifan ^b   Gomez, L T ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Demodulation; Integrated optics; Phase coding

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL QUADRATURE PHASE-SHIFT KEYING (DQPSK); PHASE CODING;

COUPLED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; QUADRATURE PHASE SHIFT KEYING;

MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 33947635570     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.860476     Document Type: Article

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