Microsphere-based optical frequency comb generator for 200 GHz spaced WDM data transmission system

Elena A. Anashkina; Maria P. Marisova; Alexey V. Andrianov; Rinat A. Akhmedzhanov; Rihards Murnieks; Mikhail D. Tokman; Laura Skladova; Ivan V. Oladyshkin; Toms Salgals; Ilya Lyashuk; Arseniy Sorokin; Sandis Spolitis; Gerd Leuchs; Vjaceslavs Bobrovs

doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/PHOTONICS7030072

Microsphere-based optical frequency comb generator for 200 GHz spaced WDM data transmission system

Elena A. Anashkina, Maria P. Marisova, Alexey V. Andrianov, Rinat A. Akhmedzhanov, Rihards Murnieks, Mikhail D. Tokman, Laura Skladova, Ivan V. Oladyshkin, Toms Salgals, Ilya Lyashuk, Arseniy Sorokin, Sandis Spolitis, Gerd Leuchs, Vjaceslavs Bobrovs

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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.

Original language	English
Article number	72
Journal	Photonics
Volume	7
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/PHOTONICS7030072
State	Published - Sep 2020
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Dissipative Kerr soliton (DKS)
Non-return-to-zero (NRZ)
Optical frequency comb (OFC)
Passive optical network (PON)
Silica microsphere
Wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM)
Whispering gallery mode resonator (WGMR)

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Instrumentation
Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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Anashkina, E. A., Marisova, M. P., Andrianov, A. V., Akhmedzhanov, R. A., Murnieks, R., Tokman, M. D., Skladova, L., Oladyshkin, I. V., Salgals, T., Lyashuk, I., Sorokin, A., Spolitis, S., Leuchs, G., & Bobrovs, V. (2020). Microsphere-based optical frequency comb generator for 200 GHz spaced WDM data transmission system. Photonics, 7(3), Article 72. https://doi.org/10.3390/PHOTONICS7030072

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Microsphere-based optical frequency comb generator for 200 GHz spaced WDM data transmission system

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