Experimental Investigation of the Effect of EDFA-Generated ASE Noise added to the Pump of a Kerr Frequency Comb

Liao, Peicheng; Bao, Changjing; Kordts, Arne; Maxim, Karpov; Peter, Pfeiffer Martin Hubert; Zhang, Lin; Cao, Yinwen; Almaiman, Ahmed; Ziyadi, Morteza; Ariaei, Amirhossein Mohajerin; Alishahi, Fatemeh; Fallahpour, Ahmad; Tur, Moshe; Kippenberg, Tobias J.; Willner, Alan E.

doi:10.1364/OFC.2017.M3F.1

conference paper

Experimental Investigation of the Effect of EDFA-Generated ASE Noise added to the Pump of a Kerr Frequency Comb

Liao, Peicheng

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Bao, Changjing

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Kordts, Arne

2017

2017 Optical Fiber Communications Conference And Exhibition (Ofc)

Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC)

We experimentally investigate the effect of EDFA-induced pump ASE noise on cavity-soliton Kerr combs for 64-QAM transmission. We find that all comb optical carrier-to-noise ratios (OCNRs) are similar with a fixed pump OCNR and comb linewidths almost remain unchanged.