title: Performance analysis of communication links based on VCSEL and silicon photonics technology for high-capacity data-intensive scenario.
abstract: To face the increased demand for bandwidth, cost-effectiveness and simplicity of future Ethernet data communications, a comparison between two different solutions based on directly-modulated VCSEL sources and Silicon Photonics technologies is carried out. Also by exploiting 4-PAM modulation, the transmission of 50-Gb/s and beyond capacity per channel is analyzed by means of BER performance. Applications for optical backplane, very short reach and in case of client-optics networks and intra and inter massive data centers communications (up to 10 km) are taken into account. A comparative analysis based on the power consumption is also proposed.
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authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Boletti
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authors.lastname: Boffi
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authors.lastname: Martelli
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authors.lastname: Ferrario
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authors.lastname: Martinelli