Optical frequency comb technology for ultra‐broadband radio‐frequency photonics

V Torres‐Company, AM Weiner - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The outstanding phase‐noise performance of optical frequency combs has led to a
revolution in optical synthesis and metrology, covering a myriad of applications, from …

Electro‐Optic Frequency Combs: Theory, Characteristics, and Applications

R Zhuang, K Ni, G Wu, T Hao, L Lu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Optical frequency combs (OFCs) are a unique kind of light source, which are represented as
a series of equally spaced coherent spectral lines in the frequency domain. OFCs can …

A survey of optical carrier generation techniques for terabit capacity elastic optical networks

M Imran, PM Anandarajah… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Elastic optical networks (EON) have been proposed to meet the network capacity and
dynamicity challenges. Hardware and software resource optimization and re-configurability …

A bidirectional wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) free space optical communication (FSO) system for deployment in data center networks (DCNs)

F El-Nahal, T Xu, D AlQahtani, M Leeson - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Data centers are crucial to the growth of cloud computing. Next-generation data center
networks (DCNs) will rely heavily on optical technology. Here, we have investigated a …

Photonics-aided terahertz-wave wireless communication

K Li, J Yu - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2022 - opg.optica.org
To meet the upcoming 6G communications challenges, terahertz-wave (THz-wave) wireless
data transmission over 100 Gb/s is urgently needed in the short term. However, advanced …

Spectrally equalized frequency comb generation in multistage parametric mixer with nonlinear pulse shaping

V Ataie, E Myslivets, BPP Kuo, N Alic… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2014 - opg.optica.org
A novel approach to improve the flatness of wide-band parametric frequency combs is
presented. The method relies on nonlinear pulse shaping prior to parametric mixing in a …

Terabit optical OFDM superchannel transmission via coherent carriers of a hybrid chip-scale soliton frequency comb

Y Geng, X Huang, W Cui, Y Ling, B Xu, J Zhang, X Yi… - Optics letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate seamless channel multiplexing and high bitrate superchannel transmission
of coherent optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (CO-OFDM) data signals …

Fully digital programmable optical frequency comb generation and application

X Yan, X Zou, W Pan, L Yan, J Azaña - Optics letters, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We propose a fully digital programmable optical frequency comb (OFC) generation scheme
based on binary phase-sampling modulation, wherein an optimized bit sequence is applied …

Multi-wavelength coherent transmission using an optical frequency comb as a local oscillator

JN Kemal, J Pfeifle, P Marin-Palomo, MDG Pascual… - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Steadily increasing data rates of optical interfaces require spectrally efficient coherent
transmission using higher-order modulation formats in combination with scalable …

Generation of flat optical frequency comb using cascaded PMs with combined harmonics

Y Cui, Z Wang, Y Xu, Y Jiang, J Yu… - IEEE photonics …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Flat optical frequency comb (OFC) can be generated by using single phase modulator (PM),
where combined harmonics are applied to drive the PM. However, the number of comb lines …