First Demonstration of Erbium-Doped Waveguide Amplifier Enabled Multi-Tb/s (16×1.6T) Coherent Transmission

20 February 2023

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We demonstrate the first EDWA-enabled Terabit-class coherent optical communication with 1.6-Tb/s net bit rate per channel and 16-channel WDM transmission over 81-km fiber, proving the potential of such on-chip amplification for future coherent applications.