Abstract

We describe a fiber-based coherent receiver topology which utilizes intrinsic phase shifts from fiber couplers to enable instantaneous quadrature projection with shot-noise limited signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Fused 3 × 3 fiber couplers generate three phase-shifted signals simultaneously that can be combined with quadrature projection methods to detect magnitude and phase unambiguously. We present a novel, to the best of our knowledge, differential detection topology which utilizes a combination of 3 × 3 and 2 × 2 couplers to enable quadrature projection with fully differential detection. We present a mathematical analysis of this 3 × 3 differential detection topology, extended methods for signal calibration, and SNR analysis. We characterize the SNR advantage of this approach and demonstrate a sample application illustrating simultaneous magnitude and phase imaging of a chrome-on-glass test chart.

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