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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Optical communications for short reach

M Chagnon - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Systems modulating, transporting, and detecting lightwaves have evolved tremendously in
the past four decades. The first systems, which were relying on intensity modulation with …

DSP for high-speed short-reach IM/DD systems using PAM

T Wettlin, S Calabrò, T Rahman, J Wei… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intensity modulation and direct detection (IM/DD) together with pulse amplitude modulation
(PAM) is a cost-efficient solution for intra-datacenter links. However, sophisticated digital …

Higher-order modulation vs faster-than-Nyquist PAM-4 for datacenter IM-DD optics: an AIR comparison under practical bandwidth limits

D Che, X Chen - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The 4-ary pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-4) has been widely deployed to both electrical
and optical interfaces in datacenter applications. Based on 100-GBd PAM-4, the 200G per …

IM/DD beyond bandwidth limitation for data center optical interconnects

Q Hu, M Chagnon, K Schuh, F Buchali… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intensity modulation with direct detection (IM/DD) provides a low-cost solution for data center
optical interconnects. To achieve higher data rate, Tomlinson-Harashima precoding (THP) is …

Digital pre-and post-equalization for C-band 112-Gb/s PAM4 short-reach transport systems

X Tang, Y Qiao, YW Chen, Y Lu… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Insufficient system bandwidth and chromatic dispersion (CD) of fiber are major limitations for
high-speed four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM4) direct detection systems. In this …

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 …

C-band 120-Gb/s PAM-4 transmission over 50-km SSMF with improved weighted decision-feedback equalizer

J Zhang, X Wu, L Sun, J Liu, APT Lau, C Guo, S Yu… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
An improved weighted decision-feedback equalizer (IWDFE) is adopted and experimentally
demonstrated to mitigate chromatic dispersion (CD) induced power fading for C-band four …

[HTML][HTML] High-speed photonic neuromorphic computing using recurrent optical spectrum slicing neural networks

K Sozos, A Bogris, P Bienstman… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Neuromorphic computing using photonic hardware is a promising route towards ultrafast
processing while maintaining low power consumption. Here we present and numerically …