High-Speed 1550 nm VCSEL Data Transmission Link Employing 25 GBd 4-PAM Modulation and Hard Decision Forward Error Correction

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 689-695

  Rodes, Roberto ^a   Müeller, Michael ^b   Li, Bomin ^a   Estaran, Jose ^a   Jensen, Jesper Bevensee ^a   Gruendl, Tobias ^b   Ortsiefer, Markus ^c   Neumeyr, Christian ^c   Rosskopf, Juergen ^c   Larsen, Knud J ^a   Amann, M C ^b   Monroy, Idelfonso Tafur ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b WALTER SCHOTTKY INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c VERTILAS GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fiber optics communication; Forward error correction (FEC); Four level pulse amplitude modulation (4 PAM); Optical interconnects; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs)

Indexed keywords

1550 NM; BANDWIDTH LIMITATION; CURRENT CAPACITY; DIRECT MODULATION; ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS; FIBER OPTICS COMMUNICATION; FOUR-LEVEL PULSE AMPLITUDE MODULATION (4-PAM); HARD DECISIONS; LASER SOURCES; LINE RATE; PARALLEL OPTICS; POLARIZATION MULTIPLEXING; TRANSMISSION CAPABILITY; VERTICAL-CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER;

BANDWIDTH; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION; MICROOPTICS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

MODULATION;

EID: 84872937744     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2012.2224094     Document Type: Article

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