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Optical Fiber Communication Conference

Optical Phase-Locked Loop for Coherent Transmission over 500 km

Keisuke Kasai, M. Yoshida, Masataka Nakazawa

Published Mar 1, 2007• 1 citation
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Abstract

We have realized an optical phase-locked loop for coherent transmission over 500 km using heterodyne detection with a13C2H2frequency-stabilized fiber laser. The phase error variance of the intermediate frequency signal was 7.9x10-3rad.
DOI
10.1109/ofc.2007.4348436

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