Simultaneous phase noise reduction of 30 comb lines from a quantum-dash mode-locked laser diode enabling coherent tbit/s data transmission

A feed-forward heterodyne scheme is shown to simultaneously reduce the phase noise of many comb lines from a quantum-dash mode-locked laser diode (QD-MLLD). This enables the first coherent data transmission using QD-MLLD as multi-wavelength source.

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