Title :
Experimental demonstration of 51.56 Gbit/s PAM-4 at 905nm and impact of level dependent RIN
Author :
Pavan, Sriharsha Kota ; Lavrencik, Justin ; Ralph, Stephen E.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate robust error-free transmission of 51.56 Gbit/s PAM-4 over multiple examples of 100m of multimode fiber with 905nm VCSELs. We further demonstrate the need to include level dependent RIN when assessing impairments and predicting performance of PAM-4 MMF links.
Keywords :
optical fibre networks; pulse amplitude modulation; surface emitting lasers; PAM-4 MMF links; VCSEL; bit rate 51.56 Gbit/s; level-dependent RIN; multimode fiber; robust error-free transmission; size 905 nm; Analytical models; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Erbium; Noise; Optical fiber dispersion; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cannes
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2014.6964164
