Microresonator-based frequency comb generator as optical source for coherent WDM transmission

Author

Pfeifle, J. ; Lauermann, M. ; Wegner, D. ; Li, Jie ; Hartinger, K. ; Brasch, V. ; Herr, T. ; Hillerkuss, D. ; Schmogrow, R. ; Schimmel, T. ; Holzwarth, R. ; Kippenberg, T.J. ; Leuthold, Juerg ; Freude, W. ; Koos, C.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Photonics & Quantum Electron. (IPQ), Karlsruhe Inst. of Technol. (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

fYear

2013

fDate

17-21 March 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

A high-Q SiN microresonator is used for the first time as an optical source for WDM transmission with advanced modulation formats. We transmit QPSK and 16QAM signals with a total bit rate of 392 Gbit/s.

Keywords

Q-factor; high-speed optical techniques; light coherence; light sources; micromechanical resonators; optical fibre communication; optical resonators; optical transmitters; quadrature amplitude modulation; silicon compounds; wavelength division multiplexing; 16QAM signals; Q-factor; QPSK; SiN; advanced modulation formats; bit rate; bit rate 392 Gbit/s; coherent WDM transmission; microresonator-based frequency comb generator; optical source; Data communication; Optical amplifiers; Optical pumping; Optical resonators; Optical waveguides; Phase shift keying;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), 2013

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0457-0

Type

conf

Filename

6533142