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Terabit/s communications using chip-scale frequency comb sources

Koos, Christian
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Kippenberg, Tobias J.  
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Barry, Liam P.
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Kudryashov, Av
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Paxton, Ah
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2015
Laser Resonators, Microresonators, And Beam Control Xvii
Conference on Laser Resonators, Microresonators, and Beam Control XVII

High-speed optical interconnects rely on advanced wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) schemes. However, while photonic-electronic interfaces can be efficiently realized on silicon-on-insulator chips, dense integration of the necessary light sources still represents a major challenge. Chip-scale frequency comb sources present an attractive alternative for providing a multitude of optical carriers for WDM transmission. In this paper, we give an overview of our recent progress towards terabit communications with chip-scale frequency comb sources. In a first set of experiments, we demonstrate frequency comb generation based on silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) electro-optic modulators, enabling line rates up to 1.152 Tbit/s. In a second set of experiments, we use injection locking of a gain-switched laser diode to generate frequency combs. This approach leads to line rates of more than 2 Tbit/s. A third set of experiments is finally dedicated to using Kerr nonlinearities in integrated nonlinear microcavities for frequency comb generation. We demonstrate coherent communication using Kerr frequency comb sources, thereby achieving line rates up to 1.44 Tbit/s. Our experiments show that frequency comb generation in chip-scale devices represents a viable approach to terabit communications.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1117/12.2087572
Web of Science ID

WOS:000353695900004

Author(s)
Koos, Christian
Kippenberg, Tobias J.  
Barry, Liam P.
Dalton, Larry
Freude, Wolfgang
Leuthold, Juerg
Pfeifle, Joerg
Weimann, Claudius
Lauermann, Matthias
Kemal, Juned N.
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Editors
Kudryashov, Av
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Paxton, Ah
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Ilchenko, Vs
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Aschke, L
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Washio, K
Date Issued

2015

Publisher

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering

Publisher place

Bellingham

Published in
Laser Resonators, Microresonators, And Beam Control Xvii
ISBN of the book

978-1-62841-433-2

Total of pages

8

Series title/Series vol.

Proceedings of SPIE

Volume

9343

Subjects

Frequency combs

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integrated photonics

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wavelength-division multiplexing

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silicon photonics

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silicon-organic hybrid (SOH)

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injection locking

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gain switching

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Kerr comb generation

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Conference on Laser Resonators, Microresonators, and Beam Control XVII

San Francisco, CA

FEB 09-12, 2015

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May 29, 2015
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