title: Bit rate transparent interferometric noise mitigation utilizing the nonlinear modulation curve of electro-absorption modulator.
abstract: we propose a bit-rate transparent interferometric noise mitigation scheme utilizing the nonlinear modulation curve of electro-absorption modulator (EAM). Both the zero-slope region and the linear modulation region of the nonlinear modulation curve are utilized to suppress interferometric noise and enlarge noise margin of degraded eye diagrams. Using amplitude suppression effect of the zero-slope region, interferometric noise at low frequency range is suppressed successfully. Under different signal to noise ratio (SNR), we measured the power penalties at bit error rate (BER) of 10<(-9) with and without EAM interferometric noise suppression. By using our proposed scheme, power penalty improvement of 8.5 dB is achieved in a signal with signal-to-noise ratio of 12.5 dB. BER results at various bit rates are analyzed, error floors for each BER curves are removed, significantly improvement in receiver sensitivity and widely opened eye diagrams are resulted.
authors.forename: Hanlin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.forename: Shilin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.forename: Mable P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Fok