Recent advances in equalization technologies for short-reach optical links based on PAM4 modulation: A review

H Zhou, Y Li, Y Liu, L Yue, C Gao, W Li, J Qiu, H Guo… - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
In recent years, short-reach optical links have attracted much more attention and have come
to constitute a key market segment due to the rapid development of data-center applications …

Volterra and Wiener equalizers for short-reach 100G PAM-4 applications

N Stojanovic, F Karinou, Z Qiang… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Unlike ultralong coherent optical systems that seriously suffer from fiber nonlinearities, short-
reach noncoherent systems such as data center interconnections, which utilize small, cheap …

Performance comparison of DML, EML and MZM in dispersion-unmanaged short reach transmissions with digital signal processing

K Zhang, Q Zhuge, H Xin, W Hu, DV Plant - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, transmission performances of directly modulated laser (DML), electro-
absorption modulated laser (EML) and Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) are experimentally …

High-speed optical fiber communication in China

J Yu, Y Wu - ACS Photonics, 2022 - ACS Publications
In the past decade, China has made great investments in studying photonics and
photocommunication with larger communication capacity, better performance, and lower …

Adaptive channel-matched detection for C-band 64-Gbit/s optical OOK system over 100-km dispersion-uncompensated link

H Wang, J Zhou, D Guo, Y Feng, W Liu… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose adaptive channel-matched detection (ACMD) to effectively
compensate channel distortions for C-band 64-Gbit/s intensity-modulation and direct …

Experimental demonstration of single-span 100-km O-band 4× 50-Gb/s CWDM direct-detection transmission

Y Hong, N Taengnoi, KRH Bottrill, NK Thipparapu… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We report on what is to the best of our knowledge the longest 50-Gb/s/λ O-band wavelength-
division multiplexed (WDM) transmission. A pair of in-house built bismuth-doped fiber …

LSTM networks enabled nonlinear equalization in 50-Gb/s PAM-4 transmission links

X Dai, X Li, M Luo, Q You, S Yu - Applied optics, 2019 - opg.optica.org
This paper proposes a nonlinear equalization technique enabled by long short-term memory
(LSTM) recurrent neural networks. The proposed technique is implemented at the end of …

50 Gbps PAM-4 over up to 80-km transmission with C-band DML enabled by post-equalizer

H Xin, K Zhang, L Li, H He, W Hu - IEEE Photonics Technology …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, transmission of directly-modulated PAM-4 in C-band is experimentally
demonstrated. Instead of introducing any optical devices for dispersion management, we …

Optical single side-band Nyquist PAM-4 transmission using dual-drive MZM modulation and direct detection

M Zhu, J Zhang, X Yi, H Ying, X Li, M Luo, Y Song… - Optics …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We present the design and optimization of the optical single side-band (SSB) Nyquist four-
level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-4) transmission using dual-drive Mach-Zehnder …

100 Gbit/s VSB-PAM-n IM/DD transmission system based on 10 GHz DML with optical filtering and joint nonlinear equalization

J Zhang, J Yu, X Li, Y Wei, K Wang, L Zhao, W Zhou… - Optics …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
We experimentally demonstrate the transmission of 100 Gbit/s and beyond vestigial
sideband (VSB) n-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-n) signals, with a commercial 10 …