Experimental Demonstration of an Electro-Absorption Modulated Laser for High-Speed Transmissions at 1.55-μm Window Using Digital Signal Processing
Fotini Karinou 
Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, Riestrasse 25, 80992 Munich, Germany
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Photonics 2017, 4(1), 9; https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics4010009
Received: 14 December 2016 / Revised: 26 January 2017 / Accepted: 6 February 2017 / Published: 8 February 2017
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optical Networks for Communications)
We experimentally investigate the transmission performance of 56 Gb/s four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-4) over 30-km standard single mode fiber (SMF) using a C-band EML for low-cost metro and short-reach wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) applications. Bit error rate (BER) performance below the HD-FEC threshold is achieved for up to 30-km maximum reported distance without employing dispersion compensation fiber (DCF) in the link.
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Keywords:
electro-absorption modulated laser; chromatic dispersion; digital signal processing; equalization techniques
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Karinou, F.; Stojanovic, N.; Prodaniuc, C.; Zhang, Q. Experimental Demonstration of an Electro-Absorption Modulated Laser for High-Speed Transmissions at 1.55-μm Window Using Digital Signal Processing. Photonics 2017, 4, 9.
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