• DocumentCode
    1304014
  • Title

    42.8 Gbit/s PAM-4 data transmission over low-loss electrical backplane

  • Author

    Sinsky, Jeffrey H. ; Gnauck, Alan ; Kozicki, B. ; Sercu, Stefaan ; Konczykowska, Agnieszka ; Adamiecki, A. ; Kossey, M.

  • Author_Institution
    Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA
  • Volume
    48
  • Issue
    19
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1206
  • Lastpage
    1208
  • Abstract
    Demonstrated is a record serial transmission rate of 42.8 Gbit/s by sending four-level pulse amplitude modulated (PAM-4) data over a low-loss Megtron 6 electrical backplane. The data is processed and equalised using early late gate timing recovery and a finite-impulse-response-based least-mean-squares equaliser. Bit error rate performance is reported over several different links.
  • Keywords
    equalisers; error statistics; least mean squares methods; pulse amplitude modulation; PAM-4 data transmission; bit error rate performance; bit rate 42.8 Gbit/s; early-late gate timing recovery; finite-impulse-response-based least-mean-squares equaliser; four-level pulse amplitude modulated data; low-loss Megtron 6 electrical backplane; serial transmission rate;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el.2012.1226
  • Filename
    6317240