Coherent WDM transmission using quantum-dash mode-locked laser diodes as multi-wavelength source and local oscillator

Juned N. Kemal, Pablo Marin-Palomo, Vivek Panapakkam +8

Quantum-dash (QD) mode-locked laser diodes (MLLD) lend themselves as chip-scale frequency comb generators for highly scalable wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) links in future…