Title :
Parallel multi-wavelength intradyne reception using an optical frequency comb as a local oscillator
Author :
J. N. Kemal;J. Pfeifle;P. Marin;M. Deseada Gutierrez Pascual;S. Wolf;F. Smyth;W. Freude;C. Koos
Author_Institution :
Institute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics (IPQ), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Abstract :
We investigate super-channel intradyne reception using an optical frequency comb as local oscillator (LO). We synchronize its center frequency and free spectral range with the corresponding parameters of the transmitter comb to compensate environmental drifts during operation.
Keywords :
"Wavelength division multiplexing","Optical transmitters","Frequency modulation","Receivers","Data communication","Frequency control","Frequency estimation"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341774
