Performance analysis of communication links based on VCSEL and silicon photonics technology for high-capacity data-intensive scenario | Zendy

A. Boletti | Zendy; Pierpaolo Boffi | Zendy; P. Martelli | Zendy; M. Ferrario | Zendy; M. Martinelli | Zendy

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Performance analysis of communication links based on VCSEL and silicon photonics technology for high-capacity data-intensive scenario

Author(s) -

A. Boletti,

Pierpaolo Boffi,

P. Martelli,

M. Ferrario,

M. Martinelli

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

optics express

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394

H-Index - 271

ISSN - 1094-4087

DOI - 10.1364/oe.23.001806

Subject(s) - photonics , optics , vertical cavity surface emitting laser , materials science , optical communication , silicon photonics , computer science , optoelectronics , laser , physics

To face the increased demand for bandwidth, cost-effectiveness and simplicity of future Ethernet data communications, a comparison between two different solutions based on directly-modulated VCSEL sources and Silicon Photonics technologies is carried out. Also by exploiting 4-PAM modulation, the transmission of 50-Gb/s and beyond capacity per channel is analyzed by means of BER performance. Applications for optical backplane, very short reach and in case of client-optics networks and intra and inter massive data centers communications (up to 10 km) are taken into account. A comparative analysis based on the power consumption is also proposed.

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