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Parallel wavelength-division-multiplexed signal transmission and dispersion compensation enabled by soliton microcombs and microrings

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  • Yuanbin Liu

    (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

  • Hongyi Zhang

    (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

  • Jiacheng Liu

    (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

  • Liangjun Lu

    (Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    SJTU-Pinghu Institute of Intelligent Optoelectronics)

  • Jiangbing Du

    (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

  • Yu Li

    (Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    SJTU-Pinghu Institute of Intelligent Optoelectronics)

  • Zuyuan He

    (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

  • Jianping Chen

    (Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    SJTU-Pinghu Institute of Intelligent Optoelectronics)

  • Linjie Zhou

    (Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    SJTU-Pinghu Institute of Intelligent Optoelectronics)

  • Andrew W. Poon

    (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Abstract

The proliferation of computation-intensive technologies has led to a significant rise in the number of datacenters, posing challenges for high-speed and power-efficient datacenter interconnects (DCIs). Although inter-DCIs based on intensity modulation and direct detection (IM-DD) along with wavelength-division multiplexing technologies exhibit power-efficient and large-capacity properties, the requirement of multiple laser sources leads to high costs and limited scalability, and the chromatic dispersion (CD) restricts the transmission length of optical signals. Here we propose a scalable on-chip parallel IM-DD data transmission system enabled by a single-soliton Kerr microcomb and a reconfigurable microring resonator-based CD compensator. We experimentally demonstrate an aggregate line rate of 1.68 Tbit/s over a 20-km-long SMF. The extrapolated energy consumption for CD compensation of 40-km-SMFs is ~0.3 pJ/bit, which is calculated as being around 6 times less than that of the commercial 400G-ZR coherent transceivers. Our approach holds significant promise for achieving data rates exceeding 10 terabits.

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  • Yuanbin Liu & Hongyi Zhang & Jiacheng Liu & Liangjun Lu & Jiangbing Du & Yu Li & Zuyuan He & Jianping Chen & Linjie Zhou & Andrew W. Poon, 2024. "Parallel wavelength-division-multiplexed signal transmission and dispersion compensation enabled by soliton microcombs and microrings," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-12, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:15:y:2024:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-024-47904-2
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-47904-2
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