Publications associées à Demonstration of Tunable and Reconfigurable Optical Nyquist Channel Aggregation of QPSK-to-16QAM and BPSK-to-4PAM Using Nonlinear Wave Mixing and a Kerr Frequency Comb

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Demonstration of Tunable Optical Aggregation of QPSK to 16-QAM Over Optically Generated Nyquist Pulse Trains Using Nonlinear Wave Mixing and a Kerr Frequency Comb

Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Arne Kordts, Fatemeh Alishahi

A tunable and reconfigurable optical aggregation system is experimentally demonstrated. Optical Nyquist pulses are generated on multiple channels using a microresonator-based Kerr optical frequency comb and insertion of uniform lines by an intensity modula ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020

Kramers Kronig detection of four 20 Gbaud 16-QAM channels using Kerr combs for a shared phase estimation

Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Arne Kordts, Fatemeh Alishahi

We experimentally demonstrate Kramers-Kronig detection of four 20 Gbaud 16-quadrature-amplitude-modulated (QAM) channels after 50 km fiber transmission using two soliton Kerr combs as signal sources and local oscillators. The estimated carrier phase at the ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2020