Optically amplified downconverting link with shot-noise-limited performance

被引:72
作者
Williams, KJ
Esman, RD
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[1] Naval Research Laboratory, Code 5672, Washington
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10.1109/68.475808
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
Experimental results of a 12-GHz downconverting optical link are presented that demonstrate shot-noise-limited performance at a maximum total photoreceiver current of 72 mA. A balanced photoreceiver is utilized to reject both laser intensity noise and noise added by an erbium-doped fiber amplifier. The receiver was constructed of four commercial 2-GHz photodetectors, each capable of detecting greater than 20 mA of average photocurrent with less than 1-dB compression in received RF power.
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