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35 km amplifier-less four-level pulse amplitude modulation signals enabled by a 23 GHz ultrabroadband directly modulated laser

Yaoping Xiao1, 2, Yu Liu1, 2, , Yiming Zhang1, 2, Haotian Bao1, 2 and Ninghua Zhu1, 2

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 Corresponding author: Yu Liu, yliu@semi.ac.cn

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Abstract: The 4-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM4) based on an 23 GHz ultrabroadband directly modulated laser (DML) was proposed. We have experimentally demonstrated that based on intensity modulation and direct detection (IMDD) 56 Gbps per wavelength PAM4 signals transferred over 35 km standard single mode fiber (SSMF) without any optical amplification and we have achieved the bit error rate (BER) of the PAM4 transmission was under 2.9 × 10–4 by using feed forward equalization (FFE).

Key words: directly modulated laserPAM4FFEIMDD



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Fig. 1.  (Color online) Assembly schematic of proposed DML.

Fig. 2.  (Color online) (a) Measured optical spectrum of DML. (b) Frequency response of DML. (c) Measured PI curve of DML.

Fig. 3.  (Color online) Experimental setup of single wavelength PAM-4 signal transmission.

Fig. 4.  (Color online) BER performances versus ROP for different distance.

Fig. 5.  (Color online) BER versus FFE tap number.

Fig. 6.  (Color online) BER performance with FFE and without FFE versus ROP for 35 km.

Fig. 7.  (Color online) The eye diagram performance for different distance.

[1]
Krishnamoorthy A V, Thacker H D, Torudbakken O, et al. From chip to cloud: optical interconnects in engineered systems. J Lightwave Technol, 2017, 35(15), 3103 doi: 10.1109/JLT.2016.2642822
[2]
[3]
Nada M, Kanazawa S, Yamazaki H, et al. High-linearity avalanche photodiode for 40-km transmission with 28-Gbaud PAM4. Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition, 2015, M3C-2
[4]
Takahara T, Tanaka T, Nishihara M, et al. Discrete multi-tone for 100 Gb/s optical access networks. Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition, 2014, M2I-1
[5]
Yang Q, Tang Y, Ma Y, et al. Experimental demonstration and numerical simulation of 107-Gb/s high spectral efficiency coherent optical OFDM. J Lightwave Technol, 2009, 27(3), 168 doi: 10.1109/JLT.2008.2007134
[6]
Man J, Chen W, Song X, et al. A low-cost 100GE optical transceiver module for 2 km SMF interconnect with PAM4 modulation. Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition, 2014, 1
[7]
Lee J, Chen M S, Wang H D. Design and comparison of three 20-Gb/s backplane transceivers for duobinary, PAM4, and NRZ data. IEEE J Solid-State Circuits, 2008, 43(9), 2120 doi: 10.1109/JSSC.2008.2001934
[8]
Zhong K P, Chen W, Sui Q, et al. Experimental demonstration of 500 Gbit/s short reach transmission employing PAM4 signal and direct detection with 25 Gbps device. Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition, 2015, Th3A-3
[9]
Tao L, Wang Y, Gao Y, et al. Experimental demonstration of 10 Gb/s multi-level carrier-less amplitude and phase modulation for short range optical communication systems. Opt Express, 2013, 21(5), 6459 doi: 10.1364/OE.21.006459
[10]
Nakanishi Y, Ohno T, Yoshimatsu T, et al. 4 × 28 Gbaud PAM4 integrated ROSA with high-sensitivity APD. Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2015, 1
[11]
Miao X, Bi M, Li L, et al. Experimental comparative investigation of 10G-class and 25G-class receivers in 100G-EPON with O-band DML. European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), 2017, 1
[12]
Huang J J, Jan Y H, Chang H S, et al. ESD polarity effect study of monolithic, integrated DFB-EAM EML for 100/400G optical networks. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2017, 1
[13]
[14]
Wang W, Li H, Zhao P, et al. Advanced digital signal processing for reach extension and performance enhancement of 112 Gbps and beyond direct detected DML-based transmission. J Lightwave Technol, 2019, 37(1), 163 doi: 10.1109/JLT.2018.2885707
[15]
Zhang Z, Wang W, Liu Y, et al. 40 km amplifier-less transmission of single wavelength 90 Gbps four-level pulse amplitude modulation signals enabled by an ultrabroadband directly modulated laser. Appl Opt, 2018, 57(16), 4570 doi: 10.1364/AO.57.004570
[16]
Zhang S J, Zhu N H, Liu Y, et al. Potential frequency bandwidth estimation of TO packaging techniques for photodiode modules. Opt Quantum Electron, 2006, 38(8), 675 doi: 10.1007/s11082-006-9004-1
[17]
Kim S K, Mizuhara O, Park Y K, et al. Theoretical and experimental study of 10 Gb/s transmission performance using 1.55 μm LiNbO3-based transmitters with adjustable extinction ratio and chirp. J Lightwave Technol, 1999, 17(8), 1320 doi: 10.1109/50.779152
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    Received: 13 August 2019 Revised: 26 September 2019 Online: Accepted Manuscript: 17 October 2019Uncorrected proof: 18 October 2019Published: 01 March 2020

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      Yaoping Xiao, Yu Liu, Yiming Zhang, Haotian Bao, Ninghua Zhu. 35 km amplifier-less four-level pulse amplitude modulation signals enabled by a 23 GHz ultrabroadband directly modulated laser[J]. Journal of Semiconductors, 2020, 41(3): 032304. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/41/3/032304 Y P Xiao, Y Liu, Y M Zhang, H T Bao, N H Zhu, 35 km amplifier-less four-level pulse amplitude modulation signals enabled by a 23 GHz ultrabroadband directly modulated laser[J]. J. Semicond., 2020, 41(3): 032304. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/41/3/032304.Export: BibTex EndNote
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      • Corresponding author: yliu@semi.ac.cn
      • Received Date: 2019-08-13
      • Revised Date: 2019-09-26
      • Published Date: 2020-03-01

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