Abstract
This paper introduces a new burst-mode coherent receiver configuration that drastically widens the receiver input dynamic range. Its key advance is a fast feed forward gain control scheme for both a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) used as a preamplifier and trans-impedance amplifiers (TIAs) set at the coherent receiver. The two-stage optical and electrical gain control greatly decreases the received burst signal's power variations and increases the receiver dynamic range which attenuates the quantization errors in analogue-to-digital conversion (ADC). To elucidate the receiver sensitivity characteristics, bit error rate (BER) calculations are conducted on 10 Gbit/s single polarization quadrature phase shift keying (SP-QPSK) signal coherent reception. The calculations focus on two significant parameters that greatly impact the quantization noise; ADC vertical resolution and received signal's state of polarization (SOP). The calculation results confirm that the proposed configuration achieves high sensitivity, better than −44 dBm, and wide dynamic range of 30 dB in the worst SOP condition, even when 5-bit ADC is used. Transmission experiments verify the calculated sensitivities and extremely high loss budget of 48.6 dB is achieved in 40-km single mode fiber (SMF) transmission. These results show that the proposal has the potential to realize 10 Gbit/s class long-reach and high splitting ratio PONs; the extremely wide dynamic range yields 40 km reach PON systems with 512- or 1024-way splits with no change in receiver configuration.
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