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- Title
Systematic Performance Comparison of (Duobinary)-PAM-2,4 Signaling under Light and Strong Opto-Electronic Bandwidth Conditions.
- Authors
Gutiérrez-Castrejón, Ramón; Saber, Md Ghulam; Alam, Md Samiul; Xing, Zhenping; El-Fiky, Eslam; Ceballos-Herrera, Daniel E.; Cavaliere, Fabio; Vall-Llosera, Gemma; Giorgi, Luca; Lessard, Stephane; Brunner, Robert; Plant, David V.
- Abstract
We present a systematic comparison of PAM-2 (NRZ), Duobinary-PAM-2, PAM-4, and Duobinary-PAM-4 (duo-quaternary) signaling in the context of short-reach photonic communications systems using a Mach–Zehnder modulator as transmitter. The effect on system performance with a relaxed and constrained system's opto-electronic bandwidth is analyzed for bit rates ranging from 20 to 116 Gb/s. In contrast to previous analyses, our approach employs the same experimental and simulation conditions for all modulation formats. Consequently, we were able to confidently determine the performance limits of each format for particular values of bit rate, system bandwidth, transmitter chirp, and fiber dispersion. We demonstrate that Duobinary-PAM-4 is a good signaling choice only for bandwidth-limited systems operating at relatively high speed. Otherwise, PAM-4 represents a more sensible choice. Moreover, our analysis put forward the existence of transition points: specific bit rate values where the BER versus bit rate curves for two different formats cross each other. They indicate the bit rate values where, for specific system conditions, switching from one modulation to another guarantees optimum performance. Their existence naturally led to the proposal of a format-selective transceiver, a component that, according to network conditions, operates with the most adequate modulation format. Since all analyzed modulations share similar implementation details, signaling switching is achieved by simply changing the sampling point and threshold count at the receiver, bringing flexibility to IM/DD-based optical networks.
- Subjects
BIT rate; TELECOMMUNICATION systems; BANDWIDTHS; OPTOELECTRONICS; OPTICAL receivers; AMPLITUDE modulation
- Publication
Photonics, 2021, Vol 8, Issue 3, p81
- ISSN
2304-6732
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/photonics8030081