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Ultra-wide dynamic range receiver for noise loaded WDM transmission systems
Li L Wang1, Craig Schulz, Song Q Shang
1Optical Platform Division, Intel Corporation, 8674 Thornton Avenue, Newark, CA 94560, USA. llwang1@yahoo.com
Optics Express
|December 10, 2008
Abstract:
We demonstrated ultra-wide input power range receivers for noise-loaded WDM applications without using optical variable attenuators. Required OSNR at 6E-5 BER exhibited less than 1dB variation across receiver input power range from -22dBm to +4Bm.
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