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Demonstration of Tunable Optical Aggregation of QPSK to 16-QAM Over Optically Generated Nyquist Pulse Trains Using Nonlinear Wave Mixing and a Kerr Frequency Comb

Fallahpour, Ahmad
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Zhou, Huibin
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Liao, Peicheng
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January 15, 2020
Journal of Lightwave Technology

A tunable and reconfigurable optical aggregation system is experimentally demonstrated. Optical Nyquist pulses are generated on multiple channels using a microresonator-based Kerr optical frequency comb and insertion of uniform lines by an intensity modulator. Data are modulated on optically generated Nyquist pulses and aggregated through nonlinear wave mixing in a periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) waveguide. Two quadrature-phase-shift-keying (QPSK) channels are aggregated to a single 16-quadrature amplitude modulation (16-QAM) channel of Nyquist pulses. To demonstrate the system tunability, we perform aggregation over different baud rates and different modulation formats. The reconfigurability of the system is demonstrated by aggregating two binary-phase-shift-keying (BPSK) channels into a QPSK or a 2-level amplitude-shift keying and a 2-level phase-shift keying (2-ASK & x002F;2-PSK) channel by tuning the relative phase and amplitude of the inputs. Furthermore, three BPSK channels are aggregated into one 4-ASK & x002F;2-PSK channel. The quality of the aggregated channel is investigated using two different approaches for wave mixing in the PPLN waveguide.

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research article
DOI
10.1109/JLT.2019.2959803
Web of Science ID

WOS:000510911600023

Author(s)
Fallahpour, Ahmad
Zhou, Huibin
Liao, Peicheng
Liu, Cong
Tur, Moshe
Kippenberg, Tobias J.  
Willner, Alan E.
Alishahi, Fatemeh
Zou, Kaiheng
Cao, Yinwen
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Date Issued

2020-01-15

Publisher

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Published in
Journal of Lightwave Technology
Volume

38

Issue

2

Start page

359

End page

365

Subjects

Engineering, Electrical & Electronic

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Optics

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Telecommunications

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Engineering

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kerr frequency comb

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nonlinear wave mixing

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optical aggregation

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optical nyquist pulses

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modulation format conversion

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limits

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8qam

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wdm

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Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), Mar 03-07, 2019, San Diego, CA

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