1.36-Tb/s spectral slicing source based on a Cr4+-YAG femtosecond laser

Y J  Chai; C G  Leburn; A A  Lagatsky; C T A  Brown; R V  Penty; I H  White; W  Sibbett

doi:10.1109/JLT.2004.840008

1.36-Tb/s spectral slicing source based on a Cr4+-YAG femtosecond laser

Y J Chai, C G Leburn, A A Lagatsky, C T A Brown, R V Penty, I H White, W Sibbett

School of Physics and Astronomy

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Abstract

This paper reports a novel optical-time-division-mutliplexing (OTDM)/wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) source based on spectral slicing of a Kerr-lens mode-locked Cr4+-YAG femtosecond laser. This mode-locked laser produces bandwidth-limited pulses having durations of 70 fs and corresponding spectral widths of 40 nm. This bandwidth is sufficiently large that an arrayed-waveguide grating (AWG) could be employed to spectrally slice the laser output into 32 different wavelength channels. A total capacity of 1.36 Tb/s (32 x 40.64 Gb/s) with measured Q factors of 8 to 13 is achieved. The spectral efficiency is 0.4 b/s/Hz.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1319-1324
Number of pages	6
Journal	IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology
Volume	23
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2004.840008
Publication status	Published - Mar 2005

Keywords

optical communications
solid-state lasers
spectral slicing
wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) source
SLICED INCOHERENT-LIGHT
MULTIWAVELENGTH SOURCE
WDM APPLICATIONS
REPETITION RATE
CHANNEL
TRANSMISSION
SUPERCONTINUUM
PERFORMANCE
WAVELENGTH
SYSTEMS

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