First Demonstration of Erbium -Doped Waveguide Amplifier Enabled Multi-Tb/s (16x1.6T) Coherent Transmission

Che, Di; Grillanda, Stefano; Liu, Yang; Qiu, Zheru; Ji, Xinru; Raybon, Gregory; Chen, Xi; Kim, Kwangwoong; Kippenberg, Tobias J.; Blanco-Redondo, Andrea

doi:10.1364/OFC.2023.Th4B.3

conference paper

First Demonstration of Erbium -Doped Waveguide Amplifier Enabled Multi-Tb/s (16x1.6T) Coherent Transmission

Che, Di

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Grillanda, Stefano

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Liu, Yang

January 1, 2023

2023 Optical Fiber Communications Conference And Exhibition, Ofc

Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC)

We demonstrate the first EDWA-enabled Terabit-class coherent optical communication with 1.6-Tb/s net bit rate per channel and 16 -channel WDM transmission over 81 -km fiber, proving the potential of such on-chip amplification for future coherent applications.