Polymer based hybrid integrated coherent receiver for next generation optical access networks

A hybrid integrated coherent dual polarization receiver based on polymer planar lightwave circuit is presented. The chip comprises polarization beam splitter, multimode interference couplers and photodiodes. Responsivity of 0.03A/W and bandwidth of 23GHz were achieved.

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