Analog front-end characterization of intradyne coherent receivers using polarization multiplexed laser source

• DOI: 10.1109/ipcon.2016.7831214
• Publication Date: 2017-01-30T15:43:54Z
• Authors: Qiang Wang; Yang Yue; Murat Arabaci; Massimiliano Salsi; Bo Zhang; Andre Vovan; Jon Anderson
• Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine

Critical parameters of coherent receivers like frequency response, bandwidth, skew, and gain imbalance can be characterized using a polarization-multiplexed laser source. Robust performance is achieved without any active feedback control of the launching polarization state into the coherent receiver.