Unpreamplified 10 Gb/s Heterodyne Detection of OOK and DPSK with Record Receiver Sensitivity (2006)

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C. Wree, D. Becker, D. Mohr, and A. Joshi
Discovery Semiconductors, Inc.
119 Silvia Street
Ewing, New Jersey, 08628, USA

ABSTRACT

We report record sensitivities for heterodyne detection of 10 Gb/s OOK and DPSK at -31 dBm and -33 dBm, respectively. The results are achieved without using an optical amplifier.

* Paper presented at the European Conference on Optical Communications, Cannes, France, 2006, paper We3.P.78.