Title :
100Gbps, 160 km IM-DD transmission of WDM Nyquist-16QAM signal based on silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator
Author :
Dan Wang ; Tiantian Li ; Junlong Zhang ; Fan Zhang ; Zhiping Zhou ; Xingjun Wang ; Hequan Wu
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. of Adv. Opt. Commun. Syst. & Networks, Peking Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
100-Gb/s WDM Nyquist-16QAM signals (10×10Gb/s with 15GHz channel spacing) are generated by intensity modulation on silicon MZM. After 160 km SSMF transmission and direct detection, the BERs of all the ten channels are below the FEC threshold of 3.8×10-3.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; error statistics; forward error correction; intensity modulation; optical fibre communication; quadrature amplitude modulation; silicon; wavelength division multiplexing; BER; IM-DD transmission; SSMF transmission; Si; WDM Nyquist-16QAM signal; bit rate 100 Gbit/s; direct detection; distance 160 km; forward error correction threshold; intensity modulation; silicon Mach-Zehnder modulator; Bit error rate; Optical fibers; Optical noise; Signal to noise ratio; Silicon; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cannes
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2014.6964046
