Single-Lane 225 Gbit/s PAM-8 Transmission over 50 km with >29 dB Power Budget for Long-Reach PONs Using a Quantum-Dot SOA
Conference: ECOC 2024 - 50th European Conference on Optical Communication
09/22/2024 - 09/26/2024 at Frankfurt, Germany
Proceedings: ITG-Fb. 317: ECOC 2024
Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF
Authors:
Reza, Ahmed Galib; Venkatasubramani, Lakshmi Narayanan; Mikhrin, Vladimir S.; Gubenko, Alexey; Barry, Liam P.
Abstract:
We demonstrate single-lane 225 Gbit/s PAM-8 O-band transmission over a 50 km SMF for 30 GHz bandwidth-limited long-reach PONs. We report a power budget of about 29.4 dB at the SD-FEC limit of 2×10(-2) by employing a high-gain InAs/InGaAs quantum-dot SOA and Volterra nonlinear equalizer.