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Demonstration of Tunable Optical Aggregation of QPSK to 16-QAM Over Optically Generated Nyquist Pulse Trains Using Nonlinear Wave Mixing and a Kerr Frequency Comb

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Fatemeh Alishahi, Arne Kordts, Maxim Karpov, Ahmad Fallahpour, Cong Liu

A tunable and reconfigurable optical aggregation system is experimentally demonstrated. Optical Nyquist pulses are generated on multiple channels using a microresonator-based Kerr optical frequency comb and insertion of uniform lines by an intensity modula ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020

Kramers Kronig detection of four 20 Gbaud 16-QAM channels using Kerr combs for a shared phase estimation

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Fatemeh Alishahi, Arne Kordts, Maxim Karpov, Ahmad Fallahpour

We experimentally demonstrate Kramers-Kronig detection of four 20 Gbaud 16-quadrature-amplitude-modulated (QAM) channels after 50 km fiber transmission using two soliton Kerr combs as signal sources and local oscillators. The estimated carrier phase at the ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2020

Orthogonally polarized frequency comb generation from a Kerr comb via cross-phase modulation

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Arne Kordts, Maxim Karpov, Lin Zhang

We experimentally demonstrate that a single microresonator can emit two orthogonally polarized individually coherent combs: (i) a strong polarized soliton comb and (ii) an orthogonally polarized continuous wave seeded weaker comb, generated from the first ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2019

Experimental Generation and Time Multiplexing of Data-Carrying Nyquist Sinc Shaped Channels from a Single Microresonator-based Kerr Frequency Comb

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Yiming Cao, Fatemeh Alishahi, Arne Kordts, Maxim Karpov, Ahmad Fallahpour

We experimentally achieve optical time multiplexing of multiple Nyquist channels. A single microresonator Kerr comb allows the generation of multiple Nyquist sinc shaped pulse trains. TDM of pulse trains are obtained through wavelength conversion inside a ...

IEEE2019

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

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Fatemeh Alishahi, Amirhossein Mohajerin Ariaei, Arne Kordts, Maxim Karpov, Ahmad Fallahpour, Cong Liu

Sinc-shaped temporal pulse trains have a spectrally efficient, rectangular Nyquist spectrum. We demonstrate the simultaneous and reconfigurable optical generation of multiple Nyquist-shaped wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) channels having temporal sin ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2019

Experimental demonstration of three-fold wavelength multicasting of a 64-QAM 120 Gbit/s data channel using a Kerr frequency comb and nonlinear wave mixing

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Fatemeh Alishahi, Arne Kordts, Maxim Karpov, Ahmad Fallahpour

We experimentally demonstrate three-fold wavelength multicasting of a 64-quadrature-amplitude-modulation (QAM), 120-Gbit/s data channel using a microresonator Kerr frequency comb and nonlinear wave mixing. The multicasting is achieved with a data signal an ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2019

Demonstration of Multiple Kerr-Frequency-Comb Generation Using Different Lines From Another Kerr Comb Located Up To 50 km Away

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Fatemeh Alishahi, Arne Kordts, Maxim Karpov, Ahmad Fallahpour, Lin Zhang

On-chip Kerr frequency combs are potentially promising to enhance many applications because of their broad-band operation and chip-scale integration. Such combs offer various mutually coherent optical carriers that can potentially be used as both coherent ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2019

Demonstration of Tunable and Reconfigurable Optical Nyquist Channel Aggregation of QPSK-to-16QAM and BPSK-to-4PAM Using Nonlinear Wave Mixing and a Kerr Frequency Comb

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Yiming Cao, Fatemeh Alishahi, Arne Kordts, Maxim Karpov, Ahmad Fallahpour

A tunable and reconfigurable optical Nyquist channels aggregation is experimentally demonstrated. The proposed method two aggregate lower order modulation formats into a single higher order one. Two 16 Gbaud QPSK Nyquist pulses aggregated to a 16 QAM Nyqui ...

IEEE2019

Demonstration of Kramers-Kronig Detection of Four 20-Gbaud 16-QAM Channels after 50-km Transmission Using Kerr Combs to Perform Shared Phase Estimation

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Fatemeh Alishahi, Arne Kordts, Maxim Karpov, Ahmad Fallahpour

We experimentally demonstrate KK detection of four 20-Gbaud 16-QAM channels after 50-km transmission using two soliton Kerr combs at transmitter and receiver. The frequency comb coherence enables a shared phase noise estimation among multiple channels. (C) ...

IEEE2019

Effects of erbium-doped fiber amplifier induced pump noise on soliton Kerr frequency combs for 64-quadrature amplitude modulation transmission

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Fatemeh Alishahi, Amirhossein Mohajerin Ariaei, Arne Kordts, Maxim Karpov, Ahmad Fallahpour, Lin Zhang

We experimentally investigate the effects of erbium-doped fiber amplifier induced pump noise on soliton Kerr frequency combs for 64-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) transmission. We find that the optical carrier-to-noise ratios (OCNRs) of the comb lin ...

2018

Ultrafast optical ranging using microresonator soliton frequency combs

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Arne Kordts, Maxim Karpov

Light detection and ranging is widely used in science and industry. Over the past decade, optical frequency combs were shown to offer advantages in optical ranging, enabling fast distance acquisition with high accuracy. Driven by emerging high-volume appli ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2018

Scalable and Reconfigurable Optical Tap-Delay-Line for Multichannel Equalization and Correlation of 20-Gbaud QPSK signals Using Nonlinear Wave Mixing and a Microresonator Kerr Frequency Comb

Tobias Kippenberg, Fatemeh Alishahi, Arne Kordts, Maxim Karpov, Ahmad Fallahpour

We demonstrate a scalable and reconfigurable optical TDL for multichannel equalization and correlation of 20-Gbaud QPSK signals using nonlinear wave mixing and a Kerr frequency comb. The two/three-tap OTDL is demonstrated to simultaneously equalize a first ...

IEEE2018

Scalable and reconfigurable optical tapped-delay-line for multichannel equalization and correlation using nonlinear wave mixing and a Kerr frequency comb

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Fatemeh Alishahi, Arne Kordts, Maxim Karpov, Ahmad Fallahpour

We experimentally demonstrate a scalable and reconfigurable optical tapped-delay-line (TDL) for multichannel equalization and correlation of 20-Gbaud quadrature-phase-shift-keyed (QPSK) signals using nonlinear wave mixing and a microresonator Kerr frequenc ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2018

Demonstration of Multiple Kerr-Frequency-Comb Generation Using Different Lines from Another Kerr Comb Located up to a 50 km Distance

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Fatemeh Alishahi, Arne Kordts, Maxim Karpov, Ahmad Fallahpour, Lin Zhang

We experimentally demonstrate multiple Kerr-frequency-comb generation using different lines from another Kerr comb located up to a 50 km distance. The master and generated slave combs are mutually coherent and have a small variance of frequency error. ...

IEEE2018

Dependence of a microresonator Kerr frequency comb on the pump linewidth

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Amirhossein Mohajerin Ariaei, Arne Kordts, Maxim Karpov, Lin Zhang

We experimentally investigate the dependence of Kerr comb generation, comb linewidth, and coherent system performance on the pump linewidth in a microresonator. We find that the generation of the primary comb can have a larger tolerance to the pump linewid ...

Optical Society of America2017

Dual-pump generation of high-coherence primary Kerr combs with multiple sub-lines

Yan Yan, Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Amirhossein Mohajerin Ariaei, Arne Kordts, Long Li, Maxim Karpov, Lin Zhang

We experimentally generate high-coherence primary Kerr combs with multiple sub-lines by using dual pumps and demonstrate the application of a primary comb state in multichannel communications. We find that more than 10 primary comb lines can be generated w ...

Optical Society of America2017

Microresonator-based solitons for massively parallel coherent optical communications

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Victor Brasch, Arne Kordts, Maxim Karpov, Miles Henry Anderson

Solitons are waveforms that preserve their shape while propagating, as a result of a balance of dispersion and nonlinearity(1,2). Soliton-based data transmission schemes were investigated in the 1980s and showed promise as a way of overcoming the limitatio ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

Chip-Scale Frequency Comb Generators for High-Speed Communications and Optical Metrology

Tobias Kippenberg, Victor Brasch, Arne Kordts, Maxim Karpov

Chip-scale frequency comb sources are key elements for a variety of applications, comprising massively parallel optical communications and high-precision optical metrology. In this talk, we give an overview on our recent progress in the area of integrated ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2017

Experimental Investigation of the Effect of EDFA-Generated ASE Noise added to the Pump of a Kerr Frequency Comb

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Fatemeh Alishahi, Arne Kordts, Maxim Karpov, Ahmad Fallahpour, Lin Zhang

We experimentally investigate the effect of EDFA-induced pump ASE noise on cavity-soliton Kerr combs for 64-QAM transmission. We find that all comb optical carrier-to-noise ratios (OCNRs) are similar with a fixed pump OCNR and comb linewidths almost remain ...

Ieee2017

Pump-linewidth-tolerant wavelength multicasting using soliton Kerr frequency combs

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Amirhossein Mohajerin Ariaei, Arne Kordts, Maxim Karpov, Lin Zhang

We experimentally demonstrate pump-linewidth-tolerant wavelength multicasting using microresonator-based soliton Kerr frequency combs. When Kerr comb lines serve as coherent pumps in a periodically poled lithium niobate waveguide, the linewidth of the mult ...

Optical Soc Amer2017