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9 June 1992Coherent optical homodyne receiver performance with an iron-doped indium phosphide photorefractive beam combiner
Performance measurements are reported of a coherent homodyne optical communication receiver that contained an iron doped indium phosphide photorefractive beam combiner, rather than a conventional optical beam splitter. The system attained a bit error probability of 10 exp -6 at received signal powers corresponding to less than 100 detected photons per bit. The system used phase modulated Nd:YAG laser light at a wavelength of 1.06 micron.
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Frederic M. Davidson, Christopher T. Field, Xiaoli Sun, "Coherent optical homodyne receiver performance with an iron-doped indium phosphide photorefractive beam combiner," Proc. SPIE 1635, Free-Space Laser Communication Technologies IV, (9 June 1992); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.59286