{"title":"Receiver sensitivity improvement for ON-OFF keying signal by using optical parametric amplifier and balanced detection","authors":"B. Kuo, K. Shimizu, P. Chui, K. Wong","doi":"10.1109/LEOSWT.2008.4444398","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We demonstrate a novel technique to improve receiver sensitivity for ON-OFF keying format by adopting balanced detection with optical parametric amplifier (OPA) as pre-amplifier. Receiver sensitivity was improved by 1.9 dB compared to single-ended detection scheme.","PeriodicalId":114191,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE/LEOS Winter Topical Meeting Series","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2008-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2008 IEEE/LEOS Winter Topical Meeting Series","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LEOSWT.2008.4444398","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We demonstrate a novel technique to improve receiver sensitivity for ON-OFF keying format by adopting balanced detection with optical parametric amplifier (OPA) as pre-amplifier. Receiver sensitivity was improved by 1.9 dB compared to single-ended detection scheme.