Petabit-per-second data transmission using a chip-scale microcomb ring resonator source
@article{Photonics2022PetabitpersecondDT,
title={Petabit-per-second data transmission using a chip-scale microcomb ring resonator source},
author={Nature Photonics and Asbj{\o}rn A. J{\o}rgensen and D. Kong and Martin R. Henriksen and Frederik Klejs and Zhichao Ye and {\'O}skar Bjarki Helgason and Henrik Enggaard Hansen and H. Hu and Metodi Plamenov Yankov and S{\o}ren Forchhammer and Peter A. Andrekson and Arvid Larsson and Magnus Karlsson and J. Schr{\"o}der and Yusuke Sasaki and Kazuhiko Aikawa and Jan W. Thomsen and Toshio Morioka and Michael Galili and Victor Torres‐Company and Leif Katsuo Oxenl{\o}we},
journal={Nature Photonics},
year={2022},
volume={16},
pages={798 - 802},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:253055705}
}Optical fibre communication is the backbone of the internet. As essential core technologies are approaching their limits of size, speed and energy-efficiency, there is a need for new technologies that offer further scaling of data transmission capacity. Here we show that a single optical frequency-comb source based on a silicon nitride ring resonator supports data capacities in the petabit-per-second regime. We experimentally demonstrate transmission of 1.84 Pbit s–1 over a 37-core, 7.9-km-long…
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