Simultaneous phase noise reduction of 30 comb lines from a quantum-dash mode-locked laser diode enabling coherent tbit/s data transmission
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Pfeifle, J.; Watts, R.; Shkarban, I.; Wolf, S.; Vujicic, V.; Landais, P.; Chimot, N.; Joshi, S.; Merghem, K.; Calo, C.; Weber, M.; Ramdane, A.; Lelarge, F.; Barry, L.; Freude, W.; Koos, C.
- Source
- 2015 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2015. :1-3 Mar, 2015
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Laser mode locking
Measurement by laser beam
Semiconductor lasers
Coherence
Quantum dots
Adaptive optics
Optical polarization
- Language
A feed-forward heterodyne scheme is shown to simultaneously reduce the phase noise of many comb lines from a quantum-dash mode-locked laser diode (QD-MLLD). This enables the first coherent data transmission using QD-MLLD as multi-wavelength source.