Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 12, Issue 10, 100601(2014)

Generation and noise analysis of a wide-band optical -frequency comb based on recirculating frequency shifter

Ying Yu, Cheng Lei, Minghua Chen, Hongwei Chen, Sigang Yang, and Shizhong Xie
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  • Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology (TNList), Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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    By optimizing the gain configuration and length of the loop, a 90-tone optical frequency comb (OFC) is successfully generated based on recirculating frequency shifter structure. The peak-to-peak power fluctuation of the 90-tone OFC is 4.26 dB and the tone-to-noise ratio is higher than 19.17 dB. To further analyze the noise accumulation feature of the tones when travelling around the loop, linewidth of the tones is measured by delayed self-heterodyne interferometer structure. The result shows the linewidth of the tones deteriorates little during the recirculating process, indicating that the generated OFC is an ideal multi-wavelength source for high-speed communication systems.

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    Ying Yu, Cheng Lei, Minghua Chen, Hongwei Chen, Sigang Yang, Shizhong Xie. Generation and noise analysis of a wide-band optical -frequency comb based on recirculating frequency shifter[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2014, 12(10): 100601

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    Received: Apr. 9, 2014

    Accepted: Jun. 18, 2014

    Published Online: Oct. 14, 2014

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    DOI:10.3788/col201412.100601.

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