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Very Flat Optical Frequency Comb Generation based on Polarization Modulator and Recirculation Frequency Shifter

  • Ruxing Li , Shibao Wu EMAIL logo , Shujian Ye and Yaling Cui
Published/Copyright: September 23, 2016
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Journal of Optical Communications
From the journal Journal of Optical Communications Volume 39 Issue 1

Abstract

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a novel scheme to generate a flat and stable optical frequency comb by using recirculation frequency shifter (RFS) loop and polarization-modulator based single-side-band modulator (PSSBM). An ultra-flat 5-carriers generated by a polarization modulator is set as the seed light source of the recirculating loop, and the recirculation times is greatly reduced compared with the regular scheme based on RFS. Through theoretical analysis and experiment simulations, it is shown that the optical frequency comb of high quality with 50 spectral lines and the flatness fluctuation of less than 1 dB can be achieved.

Keywords: optical frequency comb; polarization modulator; recirculation frequency shifting

Funding statement: This work is supported by Program of Natural Science Foundation of China (61132004, 61275073, 61420106011), Shanghai Science and Technology Development Funds (15511105400, 15530500600, 16511104100).

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Received: 2016-8-8
Accepted: 2016-8-30
Published Online: 2016-9-23
Published in Print: 2017-12-20

© 2018 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston

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https://doi.org/10.1515/joc-2016-0108
Keywords for this article
optical frequency comb; polarization modulator; recirculation frequency shifting

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  4. Devices
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  6. All-Optical Half-Adder Circuit Based on Beam Interference Principle of Photonic Crystal
  7. Networks
  8. Maximization Network Throughput Based on Improved Genetic Algorithm and Network Coding for Optical Multicast Networks
  9. Systems
  10. Review of Microwave Photonics Technique to Generate the Microwave Signal by Using Photonics Technology
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  12. Bi-orthogonal Symbol Mapping and Detection in Optical CDMA Communication System
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  26. Generation of Flattened Multicarrier Signals from a Single Laser Source for 330 Gbps WDM-PON Transmission over 25 km SSMF
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