February 13, 2016 Conference paper Open Access

Bakopoulos, Paraskevas; Dris, Stefanos; Argyris, Nikolaos; Spatharakis, Christos; Avramopoulos, Hercules

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  "description": "<p>Datacenter traffic is exploding. Ongoing advancements in network infrastructure that ride on Moore\u2019s law are unable to<br>\nkeep up, necessitating the introduction of multiplexing and advanced modulation formats for optical interconnects in order<br>\nto overcome bandwidth limitations, and scale lane speeds with energy- and cost-efficiency to 100 Gb/s and beyond. While<br>\nthe jury is still out as to how this will be achieved, schemes relying on intensity modulation with direct detection (IM/DD)<br>\nare regarded as particularly attractive, due to their inherent implementation simplicity. Moreover, the scaling-out of<br>\ndatacenters calls for longer transmission reach exceeding 300 m, requiring single-mode solutions.<br>\nIn this work we advocate using 16-QAM sub-cycle Nyquist-SCM as a simpler alternative to discrete multitone (DMT),<br>\nbut which is still more bandwidth-efficient than PAM-4. The proposed optical interconnect is demonstrated at 112 Gb/s,<br>\nwhich, to the best of our knowledge, is the highest rate achieved in a single-polarization implementation of SCM. Off-theshelf<br>\ncomponents are used: A DFB laser, a 24.3 GHz electro-absorption modulator (EAM) and a limiting photoreceiver,<br>\ncombined with equalization through digital signal processing (DSP) at the receiver. The EAM is driven by a low-swing<br>\n(&lt;1 V) arbitrary waveform generator (AWG), which produces a 28 Gbaud 16-QAM electrical signal with carrier frequency<br>\nat ~15 GHz. Tight spectral shaping is leveraged as a means of maintaining signal fidelity when using low-bandwidth<br>\nelectro-optic components; matched root-raised-cosine transmit and receive filters with 0.1 excess bandwidth are thus<br>\nemployed. Performance is assessed through transmission experiments over 1250 m and 2000 m of SMF.</p>", 
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode", 
  "creator": [
    {
      "affiliation": "aPhotonics Communications Research Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens", 
      "@type": "Person", 
      "name": "Bakopoulos, Paraskevas"
    }, 
    {
      "affiliation": "aPhotonics Communications Research Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens", 
      "@type": "Person", 
      "name": "Dris, Stefanos"
    }, 
    {
      "affiliation": "aPhotonics Communications Research Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens", 
      "@type": "Person", 
      "name": "Argyris, Nikolaos"
    }, 
    {
      "affiliation": "aPhotonics Communications Research Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens", 
      "@type": "Person", 
      "name": "Spatharakis, Christos"
    }, 
    {
      "affiliation": "aPhotonics Communications Research Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens", 
      "@type": "Person", 
      "name": "Avramopoulos, Hercules"
    }
  ], 
  "headline": "112 Gb/s sub-cycle 16-QAM Nyquist-SCM for intra-datacenter connectivity", 
  "image": "https://zenodo.org/static/img/logos/zenodo-gradient-round.svg", 
  "datePublished": "2016-02-13", 
  "url": "https://zenodo.org/record/204084", 
  "@type": "ScholarlyArticle", 
  "keywords": [
    "Optical Interconnects, sub-carrier modulation, 16-QAM, Nyquist pulse shaping, intra-datacenter connectivity, direct detection, digital equalization"
  ], 
  "@context": "https://schema.org/", 
  "identifier": "https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2211639", 
  "@id": "https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2211639", 
  "workFeatured": {
    "location": "San Francisco, California, United States", 
    "@type": "Event", 
    "name": "Proc. SPIE 9775, Next-Generation Optical Networks for Data Centers and Short-Reach Links III, 97750A"
  }, 
  "name": "112 Gb/s sub-cycle 16-QAM Nyquist-SCM for intra-datacenter connectivity"
}