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Balanced coherent receiver

US4718121A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 6, 1986
Grant dateJan 5, 1988
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Expiry dateMar 6, 2006

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04B10/63
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In a coherent optical receiver using balanced photodetectors, local oscillator intensity fluctuations are nulled out by cross-correlating them with an imperfectly balance output to derive an error signal used in a feedback loop to optimize the balance.

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