Ultrahigh-Net-Bitrate 363 Gbit/s PAM-8 and 279 Gbit/s Polybinary Optical Transmission Using Plasmonic Mach-Zehnder Modulator

We summarize our experimental exploration of the capabilities of an ultrabroad-bandwidth plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM), in an intensity modulation and direct detection (IM/DD) system for short-reach optical transmission up to 10 km. We study modulation, transmission, and reception of ultrah...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of lightwave technology 2022-05, Vol.40 (10), p.3338-3346
Hauptverfasser: Hu, Qian, Borkowski, Robert, Lefevre, Yannick, Cho, Junho, Buchali, Fred, Bonk, Rene, Schuh, Karsten, De Leo, Eva, Habegger, Patrick, Destraz, Marcel, Del Medico, Nino, Duran, Hamit, Tedaldi, Valentino, Funck, Christian, Fedoryshyn, Yuriy, Leuthold, Juerg, Heni, Wolfgang, Baeuerle, Benedikt, Hoessbacher, Claudia
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Zusammenfassung:We summarize our experimental exploration of the capabilities of an ultrabroad-bandwidth plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM), in an intensity modulation and direct detection (IM/DD) system for short-reach optical transmission up to 10 km. We study modulation, transmission, and reception of ultrahigh-symbol-rate (up to 304 GBd) multi-level optical signals with two different signaling schemes: pulse amplitude modulation (PAM), with up to 8 amplitude levels and partial-response-encoded binary (polybinary) modulation with memory length up to 4. By mapping the performance to a concatenated soft-decision (SD) and hard-decision (HD) forward error correction (FEC) coding scheme, a net bitrate of 363.4 Gbit/s is possible with PAM-8 signaling and 279.0 Gbit/s with tetrabinary (polybinary) signaling after 10 km standard single-mode fiber transmission. Considering an HD-only coding scheme, a net bitrate of 318.0 Gbit/s is possible with PAM-6 and 277.1 Gbit/s with tetrabinary.
ISSN:0733-8724
1558-2213
DOI:10.1109/JLT.2022.3172246