Title :
Terabit/s optical transmission using chip-scale frequency comb sources
Author :
Koos, C. ; Freude, W. ; Kippenberg, T.J. ; Leuthold, Juerg ; Dalton, L.R. ; Pfeifle, J. ; Weimann, C. ; Lauermann, M. ; Palmer, R. ; Koeber, S. ; Wolf, Stefan ; Schindler, Philipp ; Brasch, V. ; Elder, D.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Photonics & Quantum Electron., Karlsruhe Inst. of Technol., Karlsruhe, Germany
Abstract :
Chip-scale frequency comb sources are likely to become key elements of future terabit/s optical transceiver modules. We demonstrate the viability of Kerr comb generators and modulator-based silicon photonic comb sources for transmission at data rates beyond 1 Tbit/s.
Keywords :
light transmission; optical modulation; optical transceivers; Kerr comb generators; chip-scale frequency comb sources; modulator-based silicon photonic comb sources; optical transceiver modules; optical transmission; Frequency modulation; Nonlinear optics; Optical modulation; Optical pumping; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Photonics;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cannes
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2014.6964243
