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Digital Non-Linear Transmitter Equalization for PAM-N-Based VCSEL Links Enabling Robust Data Transmission of 100 Gbit/s and Beyond
- Urs Hecht,
- Nikolay Ledentsov,
- Helia Ordouei,
- Patrick Kurth,
- Philipp Scholz,
- Nikolay Ledentsov and
- Friedel Gerfers
This paper demonstrates why VCSEL-based transmitter systems are not able to capitalize on higher-order PAM modulation formats (such as PAM-4) to push the link data rate towards 100 Gbit/s with BER of better than 10−5. First, the non-linear and...