Digital signal processing for short-reach optical communications: A review of current technologies and future trends

K Zhong, X Zhou, J Huo, C Yu, C Lu… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Driven primarily by cloud service and data-center applications, short-reach optical
communication has become a key market segment and growing research area in recent …

Silicon photonic modulators for PAM transmissions

W Shi, Y Xu, H Sepehrian, S LaRochelle… - Journal of …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
High-speed optical interconnects are crucial for both data centers and high performance
computing systems. High power consumption and limited device bandwidth have hindered …

Performance limits in optical communications due to fiber nonlinearity

AD Ellis, ME McCarthy, MAZ Al Khateeb… - Advances in Optics …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we review the historical evolution of predictions of the performance of optical
communication systems. We will describe how such predictions were made from the outset …

Design of low-power DSP-free coherent receivers for data center links

JK Perin, A Shastri, JM Kahn - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Coherent detection offers high spectral efficiency and receiver sensitivity, but digital signal
processing (DSP)-based coherent receivers may be prohibitively power hungry for data …

Coherent data center links

JK Perin, A Shastri, JM Kahn - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As link bit rates within and between data centers continue to increase, it is challenging to
maintain low power consumption while accommodating ever-tighter optical link budgets …

Data center links beyond 100 Gbit/s per wavelength

JK Perin, A Shastri, JM Kahn - Optical Fiber Technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Increased traffic demands within and between data centers now necessitate low-cost and
low-power systems with per-wavelength bit rates beyond what can be easily achieved using …

Four-dimensional modulation and Stokes direct detection of polarization division multiplexed intensities, inter polarization phase and inter polarization differential …

M Morsy-Osman, M Chagnon… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose and experimentally demonstrate modulation and Stokes space direct-detection
(DD) of four orthogonal dimensions or degrees of freedom (DOF) of a single laser being the …

Optical field recovery in stokes space

D Che, C Sun, W Shieh - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Coherent detection empowers optical receivers the capability of recovering the optical field
propagating through the fiber. Field recovery not only increases the degree of freedom for …

Solutions for 80 km DWDM Systems

A Dochhan, H Griesser, N Eiselt… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Currently discussed solutions for 80 km DWDM transmission targeting inter-data center
connections at 100G and 400G line rates are reviewed. PDM-64QAM, PAM4, and discrete …

Digital signal processing for dual-polarization intensity and interpolarization phase modulation formats using stokes detection

M Chagnon, M Morsy-Osman, D Patel… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We study and compare two digital signal processing (DSP) approaches to recover the
intensity on two orthogonal polarizations and the interpolarization phase modulation using a …