25Gb/s PAM4 Adaptive Receiver Equalisation Requirements for Burst-Mode Transmission Systems

Conference: ECOC 2016 - 42nd European Conference on Optical Communication
09/18/2016 - 09/22/2016 at Düsseldorf, Deutschland

Proceedings: ECOC 2016

Pages: 3Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Dalla Santa, Marco; Antony, Cleitus; Talli, Giuseppe; Townsend, Paul D. (Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland)

Abstract:
Requirements for burst-mode equalisation in a 25Gb/s PAM4 system for passive optical network upstream traffic are analysed for different linear equaliser solutions, with transmission over 40km of fibre. The impact of chromatic dispersion, transmitter bandwidth restriction and non-linearities is considered.