Integrated demultiplexing and amplification of coherent optical combs

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2019-05-27
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Cotter, William E.
Morrissey, Padraic. E.
Yang, Hua
O'Callaghan, James
Roycroft, Brendan
Corbett, Brian M.
Peters, Frank H.
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Optical Society of America
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The explosive growth of the internet during the last few decades has been enabled by two complementary innovations in optical communications: the use of multiple optical channels within a single optical fibre, and the increase in the bandwidth of individual channels to hundreds of Gbps. Further increases in overall bandwidth look to be provided by more spectrally efficient optical superchannels that use coherent sub-carriers generated using optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). Yet, a cost effective way of generating these signals has not been demonstrated. One crucial, but missing piece is an effective means to separate the closely frequency spaced optical sub-carriers from the coherent optical comb before placing information on each sub-carrier, and thus creating the OFDM signal. Here, we demonstrate a flexible strategy implemented in a compact photonic integrated circuit (PIC) that is used to separate and amplify these sub-carriers using on-chip injection locking.
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Coherent communications , Coupling efficiency , Injection locking , Laser sources , Optical feedback , Tunable lasers
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Cotter, W., Morrissey, P.E., Yang, H., O’Callaghan, J., Roycroft, B., Corbett, B. and Peters, F.H., 2019. Integrated demultiplexing and amplification of coherent optical combs. Optics express, 27(11), (12pp). DOI:10.1364/OE.27.016012