[WD2] Advanced Transceiver

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[WD2-4] Off-Quadrature Bias Operation for Phase-Error Correction in an Optical-Analog-Optical Wavelength Converter

○J. Kenji Clark¹, Toshifumi Nakamura¹, Tatsunori Omiya¹, Haruka Minami², Takeshi Seki², Rie Hayashi², Wakako Maeda¹, Takeshi Kuwahara², Emmanuel Le Taillandier de Gabory¹ (1. NEC Corporation (Japan), 2. NTT Corporation (Japan))

Keywords:

Optical transmitter and receiver subsystems,Transmission impairments and their mitigations

Optical-Analog-Optical wavelength converters enable low-latency conversion of a signal from one wavelength to another. We demonstrate >2 dB improvement in the SNR of wavelength conversion at 1564.13 nm by compensating receiver phase-error with off-quadrature biasing.