KEYWORDS: Modulators, Receivers, Signal attenuation, Signal to noise ratio, Silicon photonics, Filtering (signal processing), Digital filtering, Modulation, Analog electronics, Transponders
In the context of short-reach data-center interconnect, such as OIF 400ZR, we study the system impact of bandwidth loss of Silicon Photonics Mach-Zehnder modulators in high-speed coherent modems. As well, we propose a minimum-mean square gradient-descent based method to optimize the compensation of such loss at both transmitter and receiver signal processing finite-impulse response filters. The method improves required-optical signal to noise ratio (ROSNR), under realistic hardware restrictions such as implementation noise and clock jitters at data converters, by 0.5 dB compared to fully pre-compensating the frequency response. Other advantages, such as lower power consumption, are highlighted as well.
Access to the requested content is limited to institutions that have purchased or subscribe to SPIE eBooks.
You are receiving this notice because your organization may not have SPIE eBooks access.*
*Shibboleth/Open Athens users─please
sign in
to access your institution's subscriptions.
To obtain this item, you may purchase the complete book in print or electronic format on
SPIE.org.
INSTITUTIONAL Select your institution to access the SPIE Digital Library.
PERSONAL Sign in with your SPIE account to access your personal subscriptions or to use specific features such as save to my library, sign up for alerts, save searches, etc.