Abstract
We investigated coherent detection of BPSK signal using LiNbO3 optical 90o hybrid with pulsed and CW local-oscillator. Bit-error-rate improvement was observed using pulsed local-oscillator and it provides pulse shaping capability that reduces pulse broadening penalty.
© 2004 Optical Society of America
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