Frequency Comb-based Wavelength Division Multiplexing and Detection without Wavelength Demultiplexers

2025/04/21 by Che, Di, Peng, Zhongdi, Mazur, Mikael +1
#FOS: Electrical engineering #FOS: Physical sciences #Optics (physics.optics) #Signal Processing (eess.SP) #electronic engineering #information engineering

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2504.15012

Abstract

We demonstrate a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) concept using demultiplexer-free frequency combs at both transmitter and receiver in a 4-wavelength 200-GHz-grid WDM system with flexible symbol rates, aiming to avoid the power-hungry wavelength control on demultiplexers.

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