Experimental demonstration of three-fold wavelength multicasting of a 64-QAM 120-Gbit/s data channel using a Kerr frequency comb and nonlinear wave mixing

A. N. Willner*, Peicheng Liao, Kaiheng Zou, Arne Kordts, Maxim Karpov, Martin H.P. Pfeiffer, Yinwen Cao, Ahmed Almaiman, Fatemeh Alishahi, Ahmad Fallahpour, Moshe Tur, Tobias J. Kippenberg, A. E. Willner

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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate three-fold wavelength multicasting of a 64-quadrature-amplitude-modulation (QAM), 120-Gbit/s data channel using a microresonator Kerr frequency comb and nonlinear wave mixing. The multicasting is achieved with a data signal and four comb lines serving as the pump lasers in a periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) waveguide. Minimal extra phase noise from the pumps is introduced into the multicast copies due to the mutual coherence between the Kerr comb lines. All three multicast copies achieve a bit-error rate (BER) <= 3.5E-3, which is below the forward-error-correction threshold. Both the error vector magnitude (EVM) and BER performances show <0.5-dB optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) penalty for the multicast copies compared to the original data signal.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNext-Generation Optical Communication
Subtitle of host publicationComponents, Sub-Systems, and Systems VIII
EditorsGuifang Li, Xiang Zhou
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781510625365
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
EventNext-Generation Optical Communication: Components, Sub-Systems, and Systems VIII 2019 - San Francisco, United States
Duration: 4 Feb 20197 Feb 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume10947
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

ConferenceNext-Generation Optical Communication: Components, Sub-Systems, and Systems VIII 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco
Period4/02/197/02/19

Funding

FundersFunder number
Air Force Office of Scientific ResearchFA9550-15-1-0166
Air Force Office of Scientific Research
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

    Keywords

    • Nonlinear wave mixing
    • Optical frequency comb
    • QAM
    • Wavelength multicasting

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