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Coherent reception of 80 GBd QPSK using integrated spectral slice optical arbitrary waveform measurement

06 May 2012

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We coherently receive a 160-Gb/s QPSK waveform across 80-GHz bandwidth in two 40-GHz-wide spectral slices using a silica planar lightwave circuit capable of 640-GHz measurements which includes two arrayed-waveguide gratings and 16 optical hybrids.