Real-time Evaluation of a Novel Analogue Equaliser Integrated Circuit Targeting 50G-PON ONU Simplification

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:
Nesset, Derek; Cano, Ivan; Simon, Gael; Saliou, Fabienne; Lin, Youxi; Wettlin, Tom; He, Yuan; Chanclou, Philippe

Abstract:
We evaluate the performance of a novel prototype analogue equaliser IC in a 50G-PON application scenario and compare with digital signal processing. We obtain a link budget of 33dB and the analogue IC offers 2.2dB ONU sensitivity margin to the 50G-PON standards.