Abstract
A 4 Gb/s phase-locked optical PSK (phase shift keying) heterodyne communication system is demonstrated. The receiver was implemented with a single 100- Omega loaded p-i-n photodiode and a 1320-nm diode-pumped miniature Nd:YAG laser as a local oscillator. For a 2/sup 7/-1 PRBS (pseudorandom bit sequence), the receiver sensitivity was -34.2 dBm or 631 photons/bit. The corresponding power on the surface of the detector was -37.3 dBm or 309 photons/bit. With a 2/sup 15/-1 PRBS, a 2.6 dB additional sensitivity degradation was observed due to the nonideal frequency response of the phase modulator and the receiver amplifiers.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
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