Single quantum dash mode-locked laser as a comb-generator in four-channel 112 Gbit/s WDM transmission

Mathilde Gay (1) , Arthur O'Hare (1) , Laurent Bramerie (1) , Zhenyu Hao (1) , Schadrac Fresnel (1) , Christophe Peucheret (1) , Pascal Besnard (1) , Siddharth Joshi (2) , Sophie Barbet (2) , François Lelarge (2)

1 FOTON - Fonctions Optiques pour les Technologies de l'informatiON
2 III-V Lab - Alcatel-Thalès III-V lab

We demonstrate 100 km transmission at 28 Gbit/s/channel of 4 DWDM channels using a single quantum-dash mode-locked laser. The amplitude noise of each filtered laser line is improved using limiting amplification in an SOA.

Domaines: Optique / photonique; Optique [physics.optics]

Mathilde Gay, Arthur O'Hare, Laurent Bramerie, Zhenyu Hao, Schadrac Fresnel, et al.. Single quantum dash mode-locked laser as a comb-generator in four-channel 112 Gbit/s WDM transmission. Optical Fiber Communication 2014 (OFC 2014), Mar 2014, San Francisco, CA, United States. pp.Tu2H.5, ⟨10.1364/OFC.2014.Tu2H.5⟩. ⟨hal-00966203⟩