Preface |
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Acknowledgements |
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List of Contributors |
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List of Figures |
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List of Tables |
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List of Abbreviations |
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1 Optical Interconnect Technologies for Datacenter Networks |
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1 | (32) |
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1 | (3) |
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1.2 Intra-datacenter Interconnects |
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4 | (13) |
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1.2.1 40G Optical Interconnect Technologies |
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8 | (3) |
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1.2.2 100G Optical Interconnect Technologies |
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11 | (3) |
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1.2.3 400G and Beyond Optical Interconnect Technologies |
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14 | (3) |
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1.3 Inter-datacenter Interconnects |
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17 | (9) |
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1.3.1 Inter-datacenter Interconnects in Metro Networks |
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21 | (2) |
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1.3.2 Inter-datacenter Interconnects in WANs |
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23 | (3) |
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26 | (1) |
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26 | (7) |
2 Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers |
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33 | (54) |
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33 | (1) |
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2.2 Technology Fundamentals |
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33 | (5) |
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2.3 VCSEL Device Structure |
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38 | (19) |
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2.4 VCSEL Material Growth |
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57 | (8) |
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2.5 VCSEL Fabrication Process |
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65 | (7) |
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72 | (1) |
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73 | (14) |
3 Direct Modulation Laser Technology: Past, Present, and Future |
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87 | (86) |
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87 | (4) |
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3.2 Intuitive Picture of the Dynamics of Directly Modulated Lasers |
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91 | (6) |
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3.3 Progress of High-Speed FP and DFB Lasers |
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97 | (7) |
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97 | (4) |
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101 | (2) |
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3.3.3 Short-Wavelength DML |
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103 | (1) |
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3.4 Reach Extension of DML for PON and Metro Applications |
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104 | (17) |
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3.4.1 Principle of Reach Extension of DML by Tailoring Chirp |
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104 | (4) |
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3.4.2 10 Git/s Transmission Performance of Adiabatic-and Transient-Chirp Dominant DMLs |
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108 | (2) |
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3.4.3 Gain Compression Phenomena |
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110 | (4) |
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3.4.4 Experimental S21 Response and Transmission Performance of a Highly-Damped DBR Laser |
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114 | (2) |
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3.4.5 Thermal Wavelength Drift Stabilization for the Burst-Mode NGPON2 Application |
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116 | (5) |
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3.5 Chirp Managed Laser (CML) |
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121 | (17) |
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122 | (9) |
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3.5.2 Experimental Demonstrations of CML |
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131 | (7) |
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3.6 New Era of High-Speed DML Toward 100-GHz Bandwidth |
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138 | (19) |
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3.6.1 Detuned-Loading Effect |
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139 | (6) |
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3.6.2 S21 High-Pass Filter Effect Due to In-Cavity FM-AM Conversion by the DBR Mirror |
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145 | (4) |
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3.6.3 Photon-Photon Resonance Effect |
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149 | (3) |
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3.6.4 Co-Existence of Photon-Photon Resonance and Detuned-Loading Effects |
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152 | (2) |
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3.6.5 55-GHz Bandwidth Short-Cavity DR Laser and 56 Gbaud PAM4 Generation |
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154 | (3) |
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157 | (1) |
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158 | (15) |
4 PAM4 Modulation Using Electro-absorption Modulated Lasers |
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173 | (40) |
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173 | (2) |
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4.2 General PAM4 Optical Transceiver and Link Considerations |
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175 | (8) |
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4.2.1 PAM4 Signal and Optical Link Characteristics |
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175 | (3) |
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4.2.2 EML Biasing and Nonlinear Equalization |
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178 | (1) |
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4.2.3 Forward Error Correction (FEC) and Data Rates for PAM4 Links |
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179 | (1) |
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4.2.4 Sampling Rate and Analog Bandwidth |
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180 | (2) |
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4.2.5 FFE and DFE Equalization |
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182 | (1) |
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4.3 28 Gbaud PAM4 Transmission |
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183 | (2) |
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4.4 56 Gbaud PAM4 Transmission over 2 km Experiment |
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185 | (4) |
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4.5 40 km PAM4 Transmission |
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189 | (5) |
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4.5.1 Avalanche Photodiode (APD) |
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189 | (1) |
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4.5.2 Gain Clamped Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (GC-SOA) |
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189 | (5) |
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4.6 100 km PAM4 Transmission |
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194 | (3) |
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194 | (1) |
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4.6.2 Single Channel Characteristics |
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195 | (1) |
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4.6.3 Effect of Fiber Nonlinearities |
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195 | (2) |
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4.7 Multipath Interference |
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197 | (10) |
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4.7.1 Experimental Demonstration of the Upper Bound MPI Scenario |
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199 | (2) |
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4.7.2 Time-Domain Mixing Monte Carlo Simulation |
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201 | (2) |
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4.7.3 MPI Experiment with Multiple Connectors |
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203 | (4) |
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207 | (1) |
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208 | (5) |
5 Optical Fiber for Datacenter Connectivity |
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213 | (66) |
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213 | (5) |
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5.2 Fiber Type for Datacenters |
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218 | (6) |
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5.2.1 Multimode Fiber Types for Datacenters |
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218 | (2) |
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5.2.2 Single-mode Fiber Types for Datacenters |
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220 | (1) |
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5.2.3 Optical Cabling for Datacenters |
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221 | (2) |
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5.2.4 Multicore (MCF) and Few-Mode Fiber (FMF) for SDM |
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223 | (1) |
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5.3 Waveguide Design, Modal Structure, and Time Response of SMF and MMF for Datacenters |
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224 | (11) |
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5.3.1 Fundamentals of Waveguide Design and Mode Structures of SMF and MMF |
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224 | (4) |
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5.3.2 Fundamentals of the Time Response of Optical Fiber |
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228 | (7) |
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5.4 Multimode Optical Fiber for High-Speed Short-Reach Interconnect |
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235 | (12) |
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5.4.1 Laser-optimized MMF (OM3 and OM4) |
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235 | (7) |
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5.4.1.1 What is Laser-optimized MMF? |
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235 | (1) |
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5.4.1.2 Differential Modal Delay (DMD) |
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236 | (2) |
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5.4.1.3 Bandwidth of MMF Links |
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238 | (4) |
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5.4.2 Bend-optimized OM3/OM4 and Overfilled Effective Modal Bandwidth |
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242 | (2) |
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244 | (3) |
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5.5 High-Speed VCSEL-MMF Short-Reach Optical Interconnect System |
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247 | (16) |
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5.5.1 System Evaluation Methodology |
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248 | (3) |
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5.5.2 High-Speed VCSEL-MMF System Transmission Validation |
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251 | (30) |
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5.5.2.1 10GBASE-SR transmission over OM3 and OM4 MMF |
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251 | (2) |
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5.5.2.2 40GBASE-eSR4 and 100G eSR4 extended reach demonstration over OM4 MMF |
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253 | (3) |
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5.5.2.3 40/100 Gbps SWDM over OM5 MMF |
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256 | (4) |
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5.5.2.4 High-Speed PAM4 SWDM transmission over OM5 MMF |
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260 | (3) |
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5.6 Datacom Transmission over Single-Mode Optical Fiber |
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263 | (5) |
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268 | (2) |
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270 | (9) |
6 PAM4 Signaling and its Applications |
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279 | (48) |
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279 | (1) |
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280 | (1) |
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6.3 PAM4 IC Implementation Challenges |
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281 | (6) |
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6.3.1 PAM4 Transmit Architectures |
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282 | (2) |
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6.3.2 PAM4 Receive Architectures |
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284 | (3) |
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287 | (6) |
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6.4.1 Experimental Setups |
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287 | (2) |
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6.4.2 1λ 40G 10 km Transmission |
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289 | (1) |
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6.4.3 2λ 100G 10 km and 40 km Transmissions |
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290 | (1) |
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6.4.4 Technical Options for 200/400G Over SMF |
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291 | (2) |
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293 | (6) |
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6.5.1 Experimental Setups |
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294 | (1) |
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6.5.2 1λ 40G Transmission Over 550m OM4 |
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295 | (1) |
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6.5.3 2λ 100/200 Gbps 300 m Transmission |
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296 | (1) |
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6.5.4 Technical Options for 200/400G Over VCSEL/MMF |
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297 | (2) |
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6.6 PAM4 for OSNR-limited Systems at 1550 nm |
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299 | (3) |
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6.6.1 Experimental Setups |
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299 | (1) |
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6.6.2 OSNR and Dispersion Performance |
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300 | (2) |
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6.7 PAM4 Compliance Tests |
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302 | (10) |
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6.7.1 Transmitter Dispersion Eye Closure for PAM4 (TDECQ) |
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306 | (4) |
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6.7.2 Optical Stressed Receiver Sensitivity |
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310 | (2) |
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312 | (7) |
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319 | (2) |
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321 | (6) |
7 Discrete Multitone for Metro Datacenter Interconnect |
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327 | (30) |
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327 | (1) |
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7.2 A Brief History of DMT |
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328 | (1) |
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329 | (9) |
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330 | (1) |
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331 | (2) |
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333 | (1) |
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334 | (2) |
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336 | (1) |
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7.3.6 Channel Equalization |
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337 | (1) |
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7.4 Advanced DMT Techniques for Metro DCI |
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338 | (11) |
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7.4.1 The Principle of CD-induced Power Fading |
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339 | (1) |
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7.4.2 Generations of SSB-DMT |
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340 | (4) |
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7.4.2.1 Optical filter-based SSB-DMT |
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340 | (2) |
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7.4.2.2 E/O modulator-based SSB-DMT |
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342 | (2) |
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7.4.3 Generation of EDC-DSB-DMT |
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344 | (1) |
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7.4.4 Generation of Twin-SSB-DMT |
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345 | (2) |
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7.4.5 Generation of SSBI-free Twin-SSB-DMT |
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347 | (2) |
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349 | (1) |
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350 | (7) |
8 A Duobinary Approach Toward High-speed Short-reach Optical Interconnects |
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357 | (20) |
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357 | (1) |
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8.2 Three-Level Electrical Duobinary Modulation |
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358 | (5) |
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359 | (1) |
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8.2.2 Power Spectral Density |
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360 | (1) |
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8.2.3 Vertical and Horizontal Eye Openings |
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361 | (2) |
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8.3 100-Gbps EDB/NRZ Transmitter and Receiver Chipset |
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363 | (2) |
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8.4 EDB/NRZ Transmission with DFB-TWEAM |
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365 | (4) |
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8.5 NRZ-OOK Transmission with GeSi EAM |
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369 | (2) |
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8.6 SM LW-VCSEL EDB Links |
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371 | (1) |
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372 | (1) |
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372 | (5) |
9 LiNbO3 Mach-Zehnder Modulator |
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377 | (28) |
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377 | (1) |
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9.2 Physical Properties of LN (LiNbO3) Crystal |
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377 | (4) |
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9.3 Low-loss Ti-diffused Waveguides on LN Since 1974 |
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381 | (1) |
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9.4 Mach-Zehnder (MZ) Guided-wave Circuit with Y-branches on LN |
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382 | (5) |
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9.5 Velocity Matching Between Lightwave and Electric Signal |
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387 | (3) |
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9.6 Stabilization of LN-MZM Operation |
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390 | (2) |
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9.7 External Modulation by LN-MZM Accompanied with EDFA Repeating |
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392 | (1) |
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9.8 Vector Modulation with LN-MZM for Digital Coherent Optical Communications |
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393 | (3) |
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9.9 Current Status of LN-MZM and Future Potential |
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396 | (4) |
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400 | (1) |
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401 | (4) |
10 Silicon Photonics Based PAM4, DWDM Datacenter Interconnects |
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405 | (26) |
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405 | (4) |
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10.2 Datacenter Interconnect-Edge |
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409 | (3) |
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10.3 Switch Pluggable 100Gbit/s DWDM Module |
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412 | (1) |
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413 | (2) |
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415 | (2) |
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10.6 Module and Transmission Performance |
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417 | (7) |
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10.7 Live Datacenter Deployments |
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424 | (2) |
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10.8 Evolution to Switch Pluggable 400-Gbit/s DWDM Module |
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426 | (1) |
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427 | (1) |
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428 | (3) |
11 Low-Loss Photonic Integration: Applications in Datacenters |
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431 | (50) |
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11.1 Datacenters and Photonic Integrated Circuits |
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431 | (1) |
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11.2 InP, Si, and Si3N4 Waveguide Platforms |
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432 | (2) |
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11.3 The Ultra-Low Loss Si3N4/SiO2 Platform |
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434 | (1) |
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11.4 Integration Building Blocks on the ULL Silicon Nitride Platform |
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435 | (4) |
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11.4.1 Available PIC Platforms |
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437 | (2) |
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11.5 Ultra-Low Loss PIC Components for Datacom |
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439 | (26) |
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11.5.1 Low-Loss PICs and Optical Delays |
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439 | (2) |
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11.5.2 Integrated Dispersion Compensation |
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441 | (9) |
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11.5.2.1 Design of an Integrated Dispersion Compensator |
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442 | (4) |
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11.5.2.2 Demonstration of 40 Gbps NRZ-OOK Dispersion Compensation |
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446 | (1) |
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11.5.2.3 Demonstration of 40 Gbps PAM-4 Dispersion Compensation |
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447 | (3) |
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450 | (3) |
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11.5.4 Ring Resonator Filters |
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453 | (2) |
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11.5.5 High-Extinction Filters |
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455 | (3) |
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11.5.6 C-band Lasers on the Si3N4 Platform |
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458 | (7) |
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11.6 Silicon-Nitride Waveguide Design |
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465 | (5) |
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470 | (1) |
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471 | (10) |
12 Advanced Optical Measurements for Data Centers |
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481 | (68) |
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481 | (1) |
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12.2 Polarization Related Tests |
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482 | (27) |
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12.2.1 Polarization Mode Dispersion (PMD) Measurement |
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489 | (5) |
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12.2.2 Polarization Dependent Loss (PDL) Measurement |
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494 | (4) |
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12.2.3 PDR Measurement of Receivers |
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498 | (2) |
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12.2.4 PDL Measurement of Fiber Optic Link |
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500 | (2) |
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12.2.5 Measuring In-band OSNR by DOP Measurement |
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502 | (2) |
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12.2.6 Polarization Emulation for Non-coherent and Coherent Systems |
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504 | (5) |
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12.3 Optical Signal-to-Noise Ratio Measurement |
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509 | (16) |
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12.3.1 Measuring OSNR with an OSA |
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510 | (15) |
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12.4 Characterization of Optical Vector-Modulated Signals |
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525 | (18) |
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12.4.1 Constellation and IQ Diagrams for Vector-Modulated Signal |
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526 | (2) |
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12.4.2 Definitions of EVM, RMS-EVM and TR-EVM |
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528 | (5) |
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12.4.3 Relationships between EVMRMS, Q-Factor, OSNR and BER |
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533 | (3) |
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12.4.4 Characterization of Transmitter Impairments |
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536 | (7) |
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543 | (1) |
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543 | (6) |
13 Digital Signal Processing for Short-reach Optical Communications |
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549 | (36) |
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549 | (3) |
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13.1.1 Challenges for Short-reach Optical Systems |
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550 | (1) |
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550 | (1) |
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551 | (1) |
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551 | (1) |
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13.1.2 Different Types of Short-reach Systems |
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551 | (1) |
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13.1.2.1 Server-to-server or Intra-data-center links |
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551 | (1) |
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13.1.2.2 Inter data-center links |
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551 | (1) |
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13.1.2.3 Extended Reach Inter-data-center, Access, and Metro Links |
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552 | (1) |
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13.2 Modulation Formats for Short-reach Systems |
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552 | (12) |
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13.2.1 Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM) |
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553 | (2) |
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13.2.2 Carry-less Amplitude and Phase (CAP) Modulation |
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555 | (1) |
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13.2.3 Discrete Multi-tone (DMT) Modulation |
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556 | (2) |
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13.2.4 Performance Comparison of Modulation Formats |
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558 | (3) |
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13.2.5 Complexity Comparison of Modulation Formats |
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561 | (2) |
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13.2.6 Recent Experiment on High-Speed Short-reach Transmission Systems |
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563 | (1) |
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13.3 Digital Signal Processing for Short-reach Systems |
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564 | (6) |
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13.3.1 Feed-forward Equalizer (FFE) |
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564 | (2) |
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13.3.2 Decision Feedback Equalizer (DFE) |
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566 | (1) |
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13.3.3 Direct Detection Faster-than Nyquist (DD-FTN) |
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567 | (2) |
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13.3.4 Volterra-series Based Nonlinear Equalizer (VNLE) |
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569 | (1) |
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13.4 Polarization Division Multiplexed Transmission for Short-reach Systems |
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570 | (8) |
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13.4.1 Stokes-vector Direct Detection (SV-DD) Receiver |
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571 | (2) |
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13.4.2 2-Dimensional (2D) PDM-DD System Based on SV-DD Receiver |
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573 | (4) |
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13.4.3 3-Dimensional (3D) PDM-DD System Based on SV-DD Receiver |
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577 | (1) |
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578 | (1) |
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579 | (6) |
14 Multi-dimensional Polarization Modulation |
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585 | (36) |
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14.1 Optical Detection with Polarization Diversity |
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586 | (8) |
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14.1.1 The Need of Polarization-Diversity Detection |
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586 | (4) |
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14.1.2 Automatic Polarization Control |
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590 | (1) |
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14.1.3 Polarization-Diversity Detection in Jones Space |
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591 | (1) |
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14.1.4 The Barrier of Self-Polarization Diversity |
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591 | (2) |
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14.1.5 Polarization-Diversity Detection in Stokes Space |
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593 | (1) |
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14.2 Direct Modulation with Coherent Receiver |
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594 | (7) |
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14.2.1 The Intensity-only POL-MUX-DM Coherent System |
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595 | (1) |
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596 | (2) |
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14.2.3 100-Gb/s CDM Transmission Over 1600-km SMF |
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598 | (3) |
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14.3 Polarization Modulation in Stokes Space |
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601 | (7) |
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14.3.1 Stokes-space Modulation |
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601 | (2) |
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14.3.2 Universal MIMO Equalization in Stokes Space |
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603 | (2) |
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605 | (2) |
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14.3.4 Multi-Dimensional IM in Stokes Space |
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607 | (1) |
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14.4 Noncoherent Polarization Multiplexing |
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608 | (5) |
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14.4.1 Degree of Coherence in POL-MUX Transmitter |
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608 | (1) |
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14.4.2 Noncoherent POL-MUX Schemes |
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609 | (4) |
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613 | (1) |
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613 | (8) |
15 High-speed Flexible Coherent Optical Transport Network |
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621 | (38) |
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621 | (5) |
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15.2 Why Optical Coherent Transmission? |
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626 | (6) |
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15.3 Optical Transport Network with Coherent Transmission |
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632 | (4) |
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15.4 What's Next for Optical Transport Network? |
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636 | (3) |
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15.5 Coherent Transport Technology Development by Network Operators |
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639 | (5) |
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15.6 Datacenter Connections and Coherent Transport Networks |
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644 | (3) |
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647 | (1) |
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647 | (12) |
16 Ultra-low-power SiGe Driver-IC for High-speed Electro-absorption Modulated DFB Lasers |
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659 | (22) |
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659 | (1) |
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16.2 IC Design for Low Power Consumption |
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660 | (10) |
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16.2.1 Design Requirements |
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660 | (1) |
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16.2.2 IC Architectures for Low Power Consumption |
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661 | (5) |
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666 | (4) |
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16.2.3.1 Unit-cell design |
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666 | (2) |
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16.2.3.2 Circuit Simulations |
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668 | (2) |
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16.3 Co-design and Electro-optical Simulation |
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670 | (3) |
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16.3.1 Low-power CoC Design |
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670 | (2) |
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16.3.2 Co-simulation of Driver-IC with EML |
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672 | (1) |
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16.3.2.1 Electrical Time-domain Simulations |
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672 | (1) |
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16.3.2.2 Electro-optical Time-domain Simulations |
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672 | (1) |
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673 | (6) |
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673 | (2) |
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16.4.2 Transmission Experiments |
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675 | (4) |
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16.5 Conclusion and Perspective |
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679 | (1) |
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680 | (1) |
Index |
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681 | (4) |
About the Editor |
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