Applications of optical microcombs

Y Sun, J Wu, M Tan, X Xu, Y Li, R Morandotti… - Advances in Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Optical microcombs represent a new paradigm for generating laser frequency combs based
on compact chip-scale devices, which have underpinned many modern technological …

Optical performance monitoring: A review of current and future technologies

Z Dong, FN Khan, Q Sui, K Zhong… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical performance monitoring (OPM) is the estimation and acquisition of different physical
parameters of transmitted signals and various components of an optical network. OPM …

High-performance coherent optical modulators based on thin-film lithium niobate platform

M Xu, M He, H Zhang, J Jian, Y Pan, X Liu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The coherent transmission technology using digital signal processing and advanced
modulation formats, is bringing networks closer to the theoretical capacity limit of optical …

Assessment on the achievable throughput of multi-band ITU-T G. 652. D fiber transmission systems

A Ferrari, A Napoli, JK Fischer, N Costa… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Fiber-optic multi-band transmission (MBT) aims at exploiting the low-loss spectral windows
of single-mode fibers (SMFs) for data transport, expanding by the available bandwidth of C …

Microresonator-based solitons for massively parallel coherent optical communications

P Marin-Palomo, JN Kemal, M Karpov, A Kordts… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Solitons are waveforms that preserve their shape while propagating, as a result of a balance
of dispersion and nonlinearity,. Soliton-based data transmission schemes were investigated …

Advancing theoretical understanding and practical performance of signal processing for nonlinear optical communications through machine learning

Q Fan, G Zhou, T Gui, C Lu, APT Lau - Nature Communications, 2020 - nature.com
In long-haul optical communication systems, compensating nonlinear effects through digital
signal processing (DSP) is difficult due to intractable interactions between Kerr nonlinearity …

Wireless sub-THz communication system with high data rate

S Koenig, D Lopez-Diaz, J Antes, F Boes… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
In communications, the frequency range 0.1–30áTHz is essentially terra incognita. Recently,
research has focused on this terahertz gap, because the high carrier frequencies promise …

THz-to-optical conversion in wireless communications using an ultra-broadband plasmonic modulator

S Ummethala, T Harter, K Koehnle, Z Li… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Future wireless communication networks will need to handle data rates of tens or even
hundreds of Gbit s− 1 per link, requiring carrier frequencies in the unallocated THz …

Generalized Kramers–Kronig receiver for coherent terahertz communications

T Harter, C Füllner, JN Kemal, S Ummethala… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Modern communication systems rely on efficient quadrature amplitude modulation formats
that encode information on both the amplitude and phase of an electromagnetic carrier …

Coherent terabit communications with microresonator Kerr frequency combs

J Pfeifle, V Brasch, M Lauermann, Y Yu, D Wegner… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Optical frequency combs have the potential to revolutionize terabit communications. The
generation of Kerr combs in nonlinear microresonators is particularly promising, enabling …