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

doi:10.1117/12.2514881

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1 February 2019 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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Proceedings Volume 10947, Next-Generation Optical Communication: Components, Sub-Systems, and Systems VIII; 109470N (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2514881
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2019, San Francisco, California, United States

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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.

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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, and A. E. Willner "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", Proc. SPIE 10947, Next-Generation Optical Communication: Components, Sub-Systems, and Systems VIII, 109470N (1 February 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2514881

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