Experimental Validation of Scalability Improvement for Passive Optical Interconnect by Implementing Digital Equalization

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:
Lin, Rui (School of ICT, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Isafjordsgatan 22, Electrum 229, 164 40 Kista, Sweden & School of Optics and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China)
Pang, Xiaodan; Ozolins, Oskars; Djupsjoebacka, Anders; Jacobsen, Gunnar (Networking and Transmission Laboratory, Acreo Swedish ICT AB, 164-25 Kista, Sweden)
Feng, Zhenhua; Tang, Ming; Fu, Songnian; Liu, Deming (School of Optics and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China)
Westergren, Urban; Schatz, Richard; Popov, Sergei; Chen, Jiajia (School of ICT, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Isafjordsgatan 22, Electrum 229, 164 40 Kista, Sweden)

Abstract:
We experimentally investigate scalability of a coupler-based passive optical interconnect (POI) employing cost-efficient modulation formats, pulse amplitude modulation and discrete multi-tone. Results reveal that digital equalization significantly boosts the POI scalability, particularly for the cases requiring higher transmission performance.