Optical data transmission at 44 Terabits/s with a Kerr soliton crystal microcomb

Mengxi Tan; Bill Corcoran; Xingyuan Xu; Jiayang Wu; Andreas Boes; Thach G. Nguyen; Sai T. Chu; Brent E. Little; Roberto Morandotti; Arnan Mitchell; David J. Moss

doi:10.1117/12.2584014

Optical data transmission at 44 Terabits/s with a Kerr soliton crystal microcomb

Mengxi Tan^*
, Bill Corcoran
, Xingyuan Xu
, Jiayang Wu
, Andreas Boes
, Thach G. Nguyen
, Sai T. Chu
, Brent E. Little
, Roberto Morandotti
, Arnan Mitchell
, David J. Moss

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Physics

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We report world record high data transmission over standard optical fiber from a single optical source. We achieve a line rate of 44.2 Terabits per second (Tb/s) employing only the C-band at 1550nm, resulting in a spectral efficiency of 10.4 bits/s/Hz. We use a new and powerful class of micro-comb called soliton crystals that exhibit robust operation and stable generation as well as a high intrinsic efficiency that, together with an extremely low spacing of 48.9 GHz enables a very high coherent data modulation format of 64 QAM. We achieve error free transmission across 75 km of standard optical fiber in the lab and over a field trial with a metropolitan optical fiber network This work demonstrates the ability of optical micro-combs to exceed other approaches in performance for the most demanding practical optical communications applications.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Next-Generation Optical Communication
Subtitle of host publication	Components, Sub-Systems, and Systems X
Editors	Guifang Li, Kazuhide Nakajima
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510642621
ISBN (Print)	9781510642614
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2584014
Publication status	Published - 2021
Event	SPIE OPTO 2021 - Online, California, United States Duration: 6 Mar 2021 → 11 Mar 2021

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE
Volume	11713
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Conference	SPIE OPTO 2021
Place	United States
City	California
Period	6/03/21 → 11/03/21

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Optical data transmission
fiber optics
microwave photonics
micro-ring resonators
optical micro-combs
FREQUENCY COMB GENERATION
ENTANGLED QUANTUM STATES
MODE-LOCKED LASER
WAVELENGTH CONVERSION
MICRORING RESONATOR
HILBERT TRANSFORMER
NOBEL LECTURE
MICROWAVE
RF

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Tan, M., Corcoran, B., Xu, X., Wu, J., Boes, A., Nguyen, T. G., Chu, S. T., Little, B. E., Morandotti, R., Mitchell, A., & Moss, D. J. (2021). Optical data transmission at 44 Terabits/s with a Kerr soliton crystal microcomb. In G. Li, & K. Nakajima (Eds.), Next-Generation Optical Communication: Components, Sub-Systems, and Systems X Article 117130C (Proceedings of SPIE; Vol. 11713). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2584014

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Optical data transmission at 44 Terabits/s with a Kerr soliton crystal microcomb. / Tan, Mengxi; Corcoran, Bill; Xu, Xingyuan et al.
Next-Generation Optical Communication: Components, Sub-Systems, and Systems X. ed. / Guifang Li; Kazuhide Nakajima. SPIE, 2021. 117130C (Proceedings of SPIE; Vol. 11713).

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