50 Tbit/s Massively Parallel WDM Transmission in C and L Band Using Interleaved Cavity-Soliton Kerr Combs

• DOI: 10.1364/cleo_si.2016.stu1g.1
• Publication Date: 2016-05-31T17:10:44Z
• Authors: P. Marin; J. Pfeifle; M. Karpov; P. Trocha; R. Rosenberger; K. Vijayan; S. Wolf; J. Kemal; A. Kordts; M. Pfeiffer; V. Brasch; W. Freude; T. J. Kippenberg; C. Koos
• Keywords: ddc:620; 0303 health sciences; 03 medical and health sciences; 530; Engineering & allied operations; info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/620; 620

Interleaving two soliton Kerr combs we generate 179 carriers for WDM transmission and demonstrate transmission of a data stream of 50 Tbit/s over 75 km. This is the highest data rate achieved with a chip-scale comb source.