Title :
Experimental comparison of PAM vs. DMT using an O-band silicon photonic modulator at different propagation distances
Author :
A. Yekani;M. Chagnon;C. S. Park;M. Poulin;D. V. Plant;L. A. Rusch
Author_Institution :
ECE Dept., COPL, Université
Abstract :
We experimentally compare pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) and discrete multi-tone (DMT) using a 1310-nm silicon photonics intensity modulator for four fiber lengths. DMT achieves 120 Gb/s at 2 km and 110 Gb/s at 10 km, below the FEC threshold of 3.7e-3.
Keywords :
"Modulation","Signal to noise ratio","Bit error rate","Bit rate","Silicon photonics","Resource management"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341664
