Abstract
Direct-detection of differential phase shifted keying (DPSK) optical signals is implemented either by ad hoc optical filtering or one-bit delayed optical interferometers. We show a coherent receiver where the filtering is performed in the electrical domain after down-converting the incoming signal to the baseband or to an intermediate frequency. This can be particularly advantageous whenever optical filters cannot be used or when extremely narrow filtering (sub-GHz) would be required [for example ultra-dense wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) passive optical networks]. Electrical filters can be realized more accurately than their optical counterpart. In addition, in a coherent receiver, this operation is colorless and avoids digital signal processing. We show experimentally this reduced complexity receiver and compare it with the classical one based on the delay and multiply block.
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