TY - JOUR
T1 - Microsphere-based optical frequency comb generator for 200 GHz spaced WDM data transmission system
AU - Anashkina, Elena A.
AU - Marisova, Maria P.
AU - Andrianov, Alexey V.
AU - Akhmedzhanov, Rinat A.
AU - Murnieks, Rihards
AU - Tokman, Mikhail D.
AU - Skladova, Laura
AU - Oladyshkin, Ivan V.
AU - Salgals, Toms
AU - Lyashuk, Ilya
AU - Sorokin, Arseniy
AU - Spolitis, Sandis
AU - Leuchs, Gerd
AU - Bobrovs, Vjaceslavs
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 by the authors.
PY - 2020/9
Y1 - 2020/9
N2 - Optical frequency comb (OFC) generators based on whispering gallery mode (WGM) microresonators have a massive potential to ensure spectral and energy efficiency in wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) telecommunication systems. The use of silica microspheres for telecommunication applications has hardly been studied but could be promising. We propose, investigate, and optimize numerically a simple design of a silica microsphere-based OFC generator in the C-band with a free spectral range of 200 GHz and simulate its implementation to provide 4-channel 200 GHz spaced WDM data transmission system. We calculate microsphere characteristics such as WGM eigenfrequencies, dispersion, nonlinear Kerr coefficient with allowance for thermo-optical effects, and simulate OFC generation in the regime of a stable dissipative Kerr soliton. We show that by employing generated OFC lines as optical carriers for WDM data transmission, it is possible to ensure error-free data transmission with a bit error rate (BER) of 4.5 × 10-30, providing a total of 40 Gbit/s of transmission speed on four channels.
AB - Optical frequency comb (OFC) generators based on whispering gallery mode (WGM) microresonators have a massive potential to ensure spectral and energy efficiency in wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) telecommunication systems. The use of silica microspheres for telecommunication applications has hardly been studied but could be promising. We propose, investigate, and optimize numerically a simple design of a silica microsphere-based OFC generator in the C-band with a free spectral range of 200 GHz and simulate its implementation to provide 4-channel 200 GHz spaced WDM data transmission system. We calculate microsphere characteristics such as WGM eigenfrequencies, dispersion, nonlinear Kerr coefficient with allowance for thermo-optical effects, and simulate OFC generation in the regime of a stable dissipative Kerr soliton. We show that by employing generated OFC lines as optical carriers for WDM data transmission, it is possible to ensure error-free data transmission with a bit error rate (BER) of 4.5 × 10-30, providing a total of 40 Gbit/s of transmission speed on four channels.
KW - Dissipative Kerr soliton (DKS)
KW - Non-return-to-zero (NRZ)
KW - Optical frequency comb (OFC)
KW - Passive optical network (PON)
KW - Silica microsphere
KW - Wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM)
KW - Whispering gallery mode resonator (WGMR)
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U2 - 10.3390/PHOTONICS7030072
DO - 10.3390/PHOTONICS7030072
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AN - SCOPUS:85091747881
SN - 2304-6732
VL - 7
JO - Photonics
JF - Photonics
IS - 3
M1 - 72
ER -