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In this paper, we propose a novel splitting receiver, which involves joint processing of coherently and non-coherently received signals. Using a passive RF power splitter, the received signal at each receiver antenna is split into two…
Accurate calibration of coherent optical receivers is essential for reliable performance assessment in coherent communications, precision and quantum sensing, and continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD), where the effective…
Balanced photodetector (BPD) is an important component for high-speed coherent receiver. Optimization strategy of waveguide-based multi-quantum well (MQW) BPDs, operating at 1550 nm is demonstrated on generic InP platform. Design parameters…
Silicon photonics (SiP) integrated coherent image sensors offer higher sensitivity and improved range-resolution-product compared to direct detection image sensors such as CCD and CMOS devices. Previous generation of SiP coherent imagers…
High order modulation formats constitute the most prominent way for increasing spectral efficiency in transmission systems. Coherent transceivers that support such higher order formats require heavy digital signal processing (DSP), which…
In ultra-wideband (UWB) communication systems with impulse radio (IR) modulation, the bandwidth is usually 1GHz or more. To process the received signal digitally, high sampling rate analog-digital-converters (ADC) are required. Due to the…
To support the boosting interconnect capacity of the AI-related data centers, novel techniques enabled high-speed and low-cost optics are continuously emerging. When the baud rate approaches 200 GBaud per lane, the bottle-neck of…
Cost-effective, low-complexity and spectrally efficient interconnection can offer fundamental guiding law for future datacenter. In this work, we demonstrate a cost-efficient SSBI-free direct detection for datacenter interconnection,…
This letter proposes a low-complexity signal detection method for the splitting receiver scheme, which achieves an excellent symbol error rate (SER) performance. Based on the three-dimensional (3D) received signal of the splitting receiver,…
We present a new approach to secure wireless communications using coherent distributed transmission of signals that are spatially decomposed between a two-element distributed antenna array. High-accuracy distributed coordination of…
The discrimination of coherent states is a key task in optical communication and quantum key distribution protocols. In this work, we use a photon-number-resolving detector, the transition-edge sensor, to discriminate binary-phase-shifted…
We consider the problem of signal reconstruction from quadratic measurements that are encoded as +1 or -1 depending on whether they exceed a predetermined positive threshold or not. Binary measurements are fast to acquire and inexpensive in…
A free-space optical communication system using non-mode-selective photonic lantern (PL) based coherent receiver is studied. Based on the simulation of photon distribution, the power distribution at the single-mode fiber end of the PL is…
Coherent technology inherent with more availabledegrees of freedom is deemed a competitive solution for nextgeneration ultra-high-speed short-reach optical interconnects.However, the fatal barriers to implementing the conventiona.coherent…
We propose a transmitter skew calibration based on direct detection of coherent signals with estimation errors of +/-0.2ps, providing a reliable, accurate and low-cost scheme to calibrate skew for coherent transceivers. In October 2019,…
The maximum information rates for bandlimited channels with direct detection are achieved with joint detection and decoding (JDD), but JDD is often too complex to implement. Two receiver structures are studied to reduce complexity: separate…
This letter proposes a new splitting receiver design with joint envelope detection (ED) and coherent detection (CD). To characterize its fundamental performance limit, we conduct high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) analysis on the proposed…
For future wireless communication systems, full duplex is seen as a possible solution to the ever present spectrum shortage. The key aspect to enable In-Band Full Duplex (IBFD) is sufficient cancellation of the unavoidable Self-Interference…
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can measure the phase with antenna and microwave, which cannot be directly extended to visible light imaging due to phase lost. In this letter, we reported an active remote sensing with visible light via…
Conventional optical coherent receivers capture the full electrical field, including amplitude and phase, of a signal waveform by measuring its interference against a stable continuous-wave local oscillator (LO). In optical coherent…