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Low-cost photoreceiver integrating an EDWA and waveguide PIN photodiode for 40Gbit/s applications

04 January 2007

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A novel low-cost photoreceiver that combines an erbium-doped waveguide amplifier (EDWA) and a packaged short planar multimode waveguide PIN photodiode has demonstrated -21.2 dBm sensitivity at BER 10(-10) and PRBS of 2(15) - 1 for 40 Gbit/s operations.