Coherent terabit communications using a quantum-dash mode-locked laser and self-homodyne detection
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Pfeifle, J.; Shkarban, I.; Wolf, S.; Kemal, J. N.; Weimann, C.; Hartmann, W.; Chimot, N.; Joshi, S.; Merghem, K.; Martinez, A.; Weber, M.; Ramdane, A.; Lelarge, F.; 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
Quantum dots
Semiconductor lasers
Wavelength division multiplexing
Data communication
- Language
We transmit 18 GBd 16QAM signals on 25 spectral lines of a quantum-dash mode-locked laser diode, achieving a 1.562 Tbit/s aggregate data rate. Phase noise is cancelled by self-homodyne detection using LO tones transmitted with the signal.