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

Liao, PeichengBao, ChangjingKordts, ArneMaxim, KarpovPeter, Pfeiffer Martin HubertZhang, LinCao, YinwenAlmaiman, AhmedZiyadi, MortezaAriaei, Amirhossein MohajerinAlishahi, FatemehFallahpour, AhmadTur, MosheKippenberg, Tobias J.Willner, Alan E.2017-09-052017-09-052017-09-05201710.1364/OFC.2017.M3F.1https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/140421WOS:000403405800067We 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.Experimental Investigation of the Effect of EDFA-Generated ASE Noise added to the Pump of a Kerr Frequency Combtext::conference output::conference proceedings::conference paper