Sixteen-channel coherent broadcast network at 155 Mbit/s

An experimental 155.52 Mb/s coherent broadcast network with 16 channels using a conventional distributed feedback (DFB) laser operating at 1540 nm is described. It includes absolute laser frequency stabilization, a fiber span of 74.4 km, and a balanced polarization-diversity single-filter frequency-shift keying (FSK) heterodyne receiver. At a channel spacing of 8.5 GHz a power penalty of 0.3 dB is incurred due to adjacent channel crosstalk.<
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