Optical Amplification-Free 200 Gbaud On-Off Keying Link for Intra-Data Center Communications
Oskars Ozoliņš, Toms Salgals, Hadrien Louchet, Mahdieh Joharifar, Richard Schatz, Markus Gruen, Thomas Dippon, Benjamin Krüger, Di Che, Y. Matsui, Yuchuan Fan, Aleksejs Udaļcovs, Lu Zhang, Xianbin Yu, Sandis Spolītis, Vjačeslavs Bobrovs, Sergei Popov, Xiaodan Pang
Abstract
We demonstrate a 200 Gbaud OOK link without any optical amplification using C-band externally modulated laser with 3.3 dBm of modulated output power. We achieve below 6.25% overhead HD-FEC threshold after 200 meters of SMF.
Topics & Concepts
KeyingOn-off keyingAmplitude-shift keyingOptical performance monitoringdBmOverhead (engineering)Link (geometry)LaserOptical modulation amplitudeForward error correctionOptical cross-connectOptical communicationPhysicsComputer scienceOpticsOptoelectronicsPhase-shift keyingBit error rateOptical amplifierWavelength-division multiplexingTelecommunicationsDecoding methodsComputer networkOptical fiberBandwidth (computing)WavelengthAmplifierOperating systemOptical Network TechnologiesPhotonic and Optical DevicesAdvanced Photonic Communication Systems