Analog domain carrier phase synchronization in coherent homodyne data center interconnects

R Ashok, S Naaz, R Kamran, S Gupta - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Analog domain signal processing is an attractive approach for the reduction of power
consumption in high capacity short reach coherent links. An analog domain equalizer for …

Demonstration of a low-power, local-oscillator-less, and DSP-free coherent receiver for data center interconnects

R Kamran, N Nambath, S Manikandan, R Ashok… - Applied Optics, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Performance limitations of currently employed four-level pulse amplitude modulation links
and high power consumption of digital signal processing (DSP)-based coherent links for …

All-analog adaptive equalizer for coherent data center interconnects

N Nambath, R Ashok, S Manikandan… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In a high-speed coherent optical transmission system, typically the signals obtained at the
receiver front-end are digitized using very high-speed ADCs and then processed in the …

High-capacity coherent DCIs using pol-muxed carrier and LO-less receiver

R Kamran, S Naaz, S Goyal, S Gupta - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Commonly used 4-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-4) scheme limits the amount of
data traffic that can be handled by the PAM-4 based data center interconnects (DCIs) …

Carrier phase recovery and compensation in analog signal processing based coherent receivers

R Ashok, N Nambath, S Gupta - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Analog coherent receiver (ACR) is an attractive alternative to ADC+ DSP based coherent
receiver for reducing the complexity and power consumption in near-future high-capacity …

Real-time demonstration of homodyne coherent bidirectional transmission for next-generation data center interconnects

T Gui, X Wang, M Tang, Y Yu, Y Lu… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We experimentally propose and demonstrate homodyne coherent detection in a short-
distance data center interconnect with bidirectional fiber transmission. The transmitter in the …

Beyond 1 Tb/s intra-data center interconnect technology: IM-DD OR coherent?

X Zhou, R Urata, H Liu - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We discuss technology options and challenges for scaling intra-datacenter interconnects
beyond 1 Tb/s bandwidths, with focus on two possible approaches: pulse amplitude …

An endless optical phase delay for harmonic-free phase/frequency shifting in coherent-lite DCIs and microwave photonics

R Ashok, S Naaz, R Kamran… - IEEE Journal of Quantum …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An optical IQ modulator (IQM), when driven by quadrature-phase sinusoidal electrical
signals, adds a phase/frequency offset to the optical input. However, harmonics of the …

First demonstration of an O-band coherent link for intra-data center applications

A Maharry, J Liu, S Misak, H Andrade… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report the first demonstration of a full O-band coherent link for intra-data center
applications, including custom photonic and electronic integrated circuits for the transmitter …

Analog coherent detection for energy efficient intra-data center links at 200 Gbps per wavelength

T Hirokawa, S Pinna, N Hosseinzadeh… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As datacenters continue to scale in size, energy efficiency for short reach (<; 2 km) links is a
major factor for networks that may connect hundreds of thousands of servers. We …