Chip-scale frequency combs for data communications in computing systems

Y Okawachi, BY Kim, M Lipson, AL Gaeta - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Recent developments in chip-based frequency-comb technology demonstrate that comb
devices can be implemented in applications where photonic integration and power …

Coherent optical communications using coherence-cloned Kerr soliton microcombs

Y Geng, H Zhou, X Han, W Cui, Q Zhang, B Liu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Dissipative Kerr soliton microcombs have been recognized as a promising multi-wavelength
laser source for fiber optical communications, as their comb lines possess frequency and …

All-optical signal processing techniques for flexible networks

AE Willner, A Fallahpour, F Alishahi… - Journal of lightwave …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This tutorial highlights challenges and opportunities in achieving efficient flexible optical
networks. Optical signal processing may potentially increase network flexibility because of …

Whispering gallery mode microresonator for nonlinear optics

Y Li, X Jiang, G Zhao, L Yang - arxiv preprint arxiv:1809.04878, 2018 - arxiv.org
Whispering gallery mode (WGM) microresonators, benefitting from the ultrahigh quality (Q)
factors and small mode volumes, could considerably enhance the light-matter interaction …

Terabit optical OFDM superchannel transmission via coherent carriers of a hybrid chip-scale soliton frequency comb

Y Geng, X Huang, W Cui, Y Ling, B Xu, J Zhang, X Yi… - Optics letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate seamless channel multiplexing and high bitrate superchannel transmission
of coherent optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (CO-OFDM) data signals …

Optical signal processing aided by optical frequency combs

AE Willner, A Fallahpour, K Zou… - IEEE Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper highlights certain optical signal processing (OSP) functions that can be achieved
when using optical frequency combs. An optical frequency comb can provide many narrow …

Demonstration of tunable optical aggregation of QPSK to 16-QAM over optically generated Nyquist pulse trains using nonlinear wave mixing and a Kerr frequency …

A Fallahpour, F Alishahi, K Zou, Y Cao… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A tunable and reconfigurable optical aggregation system is experimentally demonstrated.
Optical Nyquist pulses are generated on multiple channels using a microresonator-based …

Reconfigurable optical generation of nine Nyquist WDM channels with sinc-shaped temporal pulse trains using a single microresonator-based Kerr frequency comb

F Alishahi, A Fallahpour, A Mohajerin-Ariaei, Y Cao… - Optics letters, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Sinc-shaped temporal pulse trains have a spectrally efficient, rectangular Nyquist spectrum.
We demonstrate the simultaneous and reconfigurable optical generation of multiple Nyquist …

Mode density multiplication of an optical frequency comb by N2 with phase modulation

T Hasegawa - Optics Express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We introduce a simple scheme for mode-density multiplication of an optical frequency comb
(OFC) by a factor of square of an arbitrary integer N using phase modulation. This scheme is …

Multiple Kerr-frequency-comb generation using different lines from a remote Kerr comb

P Liao, A Willner, A Almaiman, C Bao - US Patent 11,106,111, 2021 - Google Patents
Methods, systems, and apparatus for generating Kerr frequency combs. The system includes
a continuous-wave pump laser to provide a master comb pump. The system includes a …