A novel phase noise suppression method for coherent detection by utilizing two adjacent longitudinal modes generated from a supercontinuum multi-wavelength source

Abstract

A novel phase noise suppression method for coherent detection is proposed. It uses two adjacent longitudinal modes of a multi-wavelength source, as signal light and coherent light respectively, which are both launched into the optical fiber. And heterodyne synchronous demodulation structure is used in the receiver. The performance of a back-to-back system with 100 Gbit/s NRZ-QPSK utilizing this novel method is investigated by VPI. The simulation results show that phase noise in this coherent detection scheme is suppressed significantly, which is resulted from the correlating phase and fixed frequency spacing of adjacent longitudinal modes.