Investigation of 60 Gb/s 4-PAM Using an 850 nm VCSEL and Multimode Fiber
Journal article, 2016

We investigate 4-pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM) at data rates in the range of 50-60 Gb/s using a directly modulated 850 nm VCSEL and multimode fiber links up to 200 m. The channel conditions in which 4-PAM has performance advantages over traditional ON-OFF keying are evaluated followed by experimental results at data rates of 56.7 Gb/s over distances up to 200 m using equalization and FEC, with a post-FEC bit error rate of 10(-12). The reported analysis is applicable to future Ethernet and Fibre Channel applications requiring 50 Gb/s serial data rates per lane over multimode fibers.

modal dispersion

fiber bandwidth

VCSEL

fiber optics components

multimode fiber (MMF)

Chromatic dispersion

FEC

dispersion compensation

PAM

Author

J. M. Castro

Panduit Corporation Research and Development

Rick Pimpinella

Panduit Corporation Research and Development

Bulent Kose

Panduit Corporation Research and Development

P. Huang

Panduit Corporation Research and Development

B. Lane

Panduit Corporation Research and Development

Krzysztof Szczerba

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Photonics

Petter Westbergh

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Photonics

Tamas Lengyel

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Photonics

Johan Gustavsson

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Photonics

Anders Larsson

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Photonics

Peter Andrekson

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Photonics

Journal of Lightwave Technology

0733-8724 (ISSN) 1558-2213 (eISSN)

Vol. 34 16 3825-3836 7452561

Subject Categories

Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

DOI

10.1109/jlt.2016.2549539

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