Open AccessSingle-Lane 112-Gbit/s SSB-PAM4 Transmission With Dual-Drive MZM and Kramers–Kronig Detection Over 80-km SSMF
Author(s) -
Liang Shu,
Jianqiang Li,
Zhiquan Wan,
Fan Gao,
Songnian Fu,
Xiang Li,
Qi Yang,
Kun Xu
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
ieee photonics journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.725
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1943-0655
pISSN - 1943-0647
DOI - 10.1109/jphot.2017.2771221
Subject(s) - engineered materials, dielectrics and plasmas , photonics and electrooptics
We have experimentally demonstrated the signal-to-signal beating interference (SSBI) mitigation capability of Kramers-Kronig (KK) detection in a single sideband (SSB) four-ary pulse-amplitude-modulation (PAM4) direct detection (DD) system. A 112-Gbit/s (56-GBaud) SSB-PAM4 optical signal suitable for KK detection is generated by using a single commercial, low-cost dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulator. The system bandwidth constraint is mitigated by Nyquist pulse shaping and bandwidth precompensation. The SSBI mitigation capability of KK algorithm is identified by comparing with two order Volterra filter. After 80-km dispersion-uncompensated standard single-mode fiber transmission, linear equalizer with KK algorithm and two order Volterra filter based nonlinearity equalizer show similar bit error rate (BER) performance, which are 3.2 × 10-3 and 2.8 × 10-3 , respectively. Both BERs are below 7% hard-decision forward error correction threshold of 3.8 × 10 -3. The experiment results present the excellent SSBI mitigation capability of KK detection in SSB-PAM4 DD system. Above all, our experiments reveal the potential of KK detection in DD system for data center interconnects.