Anashkina EA, Marisova MP, Andrianov A, Akhmedzhanov RA, Murnieks R, Tokman MD, Skladova L, Oladyshkin I, Salgals T, Lyashuk I, Sorokin A, Spolitis S, Leuchs G, Bobrovs V (2020)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2020
Book Volume: 7
Article Number: 72
Journal Issue: 3
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.
APA:
Anashkina, E.A., Marisova, M.P., Andrianov, A., Akhmedzhanov, R.A., Murnieks, R., Tokman, M.D.,... Bobrovs, V. (2020). Microsphere-based optical frequency comb generator for 200 GHz spaced WDM data transmission system. Photonics, 7(3). https://doi.org/10.3390/PHOTONICS7030072
MLA:
Anashkina, Elena A., et al. "Microsphere-based optical frequency comb generator for 200 GHz spaced WDM data transmission system." Photonics 7.3 (2020).
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