200 Gb/s Optical-Amplifier-Free IM/DD Transmissions Using a Directly Modulated O-Band DFB+R Laser Targeting LR ApplicationsShow others and affiliations
2023 (English)In: Journal of Lightwave Technology, ISSN 0733-8724, E-ISSN 1558-2213, Vol. 41, no 11, p. 3635-3641Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
We experimentally demonstrate an O-band single-lane 200 Gb/s intensity modulation direct detection (IM/DD) transmission system using a low-chirp, broadband, and high-power directly modulated laser (DML). The employed laser is an isolator-free packaged module with over 65-GHz modulation bandwidth enabled by a distributed feedback plus passive waveguide reflection (DFB+R) design. We transmit high baud rate signals over 20-km standard single-mode fiber (SSMF) without using any optical amplifiers and demodulate them with reasonably low-complexity digital equalizers. We generate and detect up to 170 Gbaud non-return-to-zero on-off-keying (NRZ-OOK), 112 Gbaud 4-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM4), and 100 Gbaud PAM6 in the optical back-to-back configuration. After transmission over the 20-km optical-amplifier-free SSMF link, up to 150 Gbaud NRZ-OOK, 106 Gbaud PAM4, and 80 Gbaud PAM6 signals are successfully received and demodulated, achieving bit error rate (BER) performance below the 6.25%-overhead hard-decision (HD) forward-error-correction code (FEC) limit. The demonstrated results show the possibility of meeting the strict requirements towards the development of 200 Gb/s/lane IM/DD technologies, targeting 800 Gb/s and 1.6 Tb/s LR applications.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2023. Vol. 41, no 11, p. 3635-3641
Keywords [en]
Direct modulation, distributed-feedback laser, on-off keying, pulse amplitude modulation
National Category
Telecommunications Atom and Molecular Physics and Optics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-330937DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2023.3261421ISI: 001005898300042Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85151524887OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-330937DiVA, id: diva2:1779662
Note
QC 20230704
2023-07-042023-07-042024-03-15Bibliographically approved