Opt Lett. 2022 Dec 1;47(23):6273-6276. doi: 10.1364/OL.476399.
The insatiable growth of datacenter traffic mandates increasing the capacity of cost-effective intensity modulation direct detection (IMDD) systems to meet the foreseen demand. This Letter demonstrates the first, to the best of our knowledge, single-digital-to-analog converter (DAC) IMDD system achieving a net 400-Gbps transmission using a thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM). Employing a driver-less DAC channel (128 GSa/s, 800 mV) with neither pulse-shaping nor pre-emphasis filtering, we transmit (1) 128-Gbaud PAM16 below the 25% overhead soft-decision forward error correction (SD-FEC) bit error rate (BER) threshold and (2) 128-Gbaud probabilistically shaped (PS)-PAM16 under the 20% overhead SD-FEC threshold, which respectively correspond to record net rates of 410 and 400 Gbps for single-DAC operation. Our results highlight the promise of operating 400-Gbps IMDD links with reduced digital signal processing (DSP) complexity and driving swing requirements.
为了满足预期的需求,数据中心流量的不断增长要求提高具有成本效益的强度调制直接检测 (IMDD) 系统的容量。本信首次展示了我们所知的第一个使用薄膜铌酸锂 (TFLN) 马赫-曾德尔调制器 (MZM) 的单数模转换器 (DAC) IMDD 系统实现净 400-Gbps 传输。我们使用无驱动器 DAC 通道(128 GSa/s,800 mV),既不进行脉冲整形也不进行预加重滤波,传输了 (1) 在 25%开销软判决前向纠错 (SD-FEC) 误码率 (BER) 阈值以下的 128-Gbaud PAM16,以及 (2) 在 20%开销 SD-FEC 阈值以下的 128-Gbaud 概率整形 (PS)-PAM16,这分别对应于单 DAC 操作的记录净速率为 410 和 400 Gbps。我们的结果突出了降低数字信号处理 (DSP) 复杂性和驱动摆幅要求来运行 400-Gbps IMDD 链路的前景。