Plasmonic-MZM-based Short-Reach Transmission up to 10 km Supporting >304 GBd Polybinary or 432 Gbit/s PAM-8 Signaling
Qian Hu, Robert Borkowski, Yannick Lefevre, Fred Buchali, R. Bonk, Karsten Schuh, Eva De Leo, Patrick Habegger, Marcel Destraz, Nino Del Medico, Hamit Duran, Valentino Tedaldi, Christian Funck, Yuriy Fedoryshyn, Juerg Leuthold, Wolfgang Heni, Benedikt Baeuerle, Claudia Hoessbacher
Abstract
We employ an ultrabroad-bandwidth plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator to demonstrate 10-km IM/DD transmission at a symbol rate of 304-GBd (AIR 293.3-Gbit/s, net 270.0-Gbit/s) realized with a poly-binary modulation scheme, and a line rate of 432-Gbit/s (AIR 383.6-Gbit/s, net 350.4-Gbit/s) using PAM-8.
Topics & Concepts
GigabitModulation (music)Bandwidth (computing)Transmission (telecommunications)Symbol ratePhysicsOptical communicationOpticsOptoelectronicsBit error rateTelecommunicationsComputer scienceChannel (broadcasting)AcousticsOptical Network TechnologiesPhotonic and Optical DevicesAdvanced Photonic Communication Systems