JOURNAL ARTICLE

Polarization-insensitive planar lightwave circuit dual-rate Mach-Zehnder delay-interferometer

C. R. DoerrM. CappuzzoE.Y. ChenA. Wong-FoyL.T. GomezS. S. PatelS. ChandrasekharAlice E. White

Year: 2006 Journal:   IEEE Photonics Technology Letters Vol: 18 (16)Pages: 1708-1710   Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Abstract

We demonstrate a silica waveguide Mach-Zehnder delay-interferometer that uses integrated switches to demodulate either 10- or 40-Gb/s differential phase-shift keyed signals. We achieved polarization insensitivity by using a half-wave plate and reducing polarization crosstalk in the couplers

Keywords:
Interferometry Mach–Zehnder interferometer Demodulation Dual-polarization interferometry Optics Planar Polarization (electrochemistry) Physics Crosstalk Materials science Optoelectronics Telecommunications Computer science Chemistry

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