title: Experimental study of PAM-4, CAP-16, and DMT for 100 Gb/s short reach optical transmission systems.
abstract: Advanced modulation formats combined with digital signal processing and direct detection is a promising way to realize high capacity, low cost and power efficient short reach optical transmission system. In this paper, we present a detailed investigation on the performance of three advanced modulation formats for 100 Gb/s short reach transmission system. They are PAM-4, CAP-16 and DMT. The detailed digital signal processing required for each modulation format is presented. Comprehensive simulations are carried out to evaluate the performance of each modulation format in terms of received optical power, transmitter bandwidth, relative intensity noise and thermal noise. The performance of each modulation format is also experimentally studied. To the best of our knowledge, we report the first demonstration of a 112 Gb/s transmission over 10km of SSMF employing single band CAP-16 with EML. Finally, a comparison of computational complexity of DSP for the three formats is presented.
authors.forename: Kangping
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zhong
authors.forename: Xian
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gui
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Tao
authors.forename: Yuliang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Jiangwei
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Man
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zeng
authors.forename: Alan Pak Tao
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Lau
authors.forename: Chao
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authors.lastname: Lu