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We review currently discussed solutions for 80 km DWDM transmission targeting inter data-center connections at 100G and 400G line rates. PDM-64QAM, PAM4 and DMT are investigated, while the focus lies on directly detected solutions.

We review three solutions for low-cost data center interconnects with a target reach of up to 80 km. Directly detected DMT, PAM-4 and multi-band CAP are promising modulation schemes, enabling 400 Gbit/s by combining eight channels of 56…

We demonstrate up to 12 km, 56 Gb/s DMT transmission using high-speed VCSELs in the 1.5 um wavelength range for future 400Gb/s intra-data center connects, enabled by vestigial sideband filtering of the transmit signal.

Discrete multi-tone transmission (DMT) is a promising candidate for future 400G data center interconnects. Eight channels, each carrying 56 Gb/s of data can be combined in a 50-GHz channel grid to form a 400 Gb/s superchannel. For a fully…

We report on 112 Gbit/s real-time DMT transmission over up to 60 km, targeted at DCI applications. Chromatic dispersion mitigation by vestigial sideband filtering is compared to the use of dispersion compensating fiber.

We experimentally evaluate a flexible DMT system using 4 to 8 50-GHz-grid C-band channels to transmit 448 Gb/s over up to 240 km SSMF. VSB filtering enabled by detuned lasers significantly reduces the impact of chromatic dispersion.

8-OAM modes each carrying 10 wavelengths with 2.56-Tbit/s aggregated capacity and 10.24-bit/s/Hz spectral efficiency have been transmitted over 50-km specially designed ring-core fiber, using a compact OAM mode sorter and only modular 4x4…

For a future 5G Ethernet-based fronthaul architecture, 100G trunk lines of a transmission distance up to 10 km standard single mode fiber (SSMF) in combination with cheap grey optics to daisy chain cell site network interfaces are a…

We show a beyond 200Gb/s VCSEL transmission experiment. Results are based on 35GHz VCSEL and advanced DSP. We show an AIR of 245Gb/s PAM-6 back-to-back, and 200Gb/s PAM-4 over 60m OM4 fiber assuming KP4-FEC.

Using a novel geometrically-shaped four-dimensional modulation format, we transmitted 11x200 Gbit/s DWDM at 4.8 bit/4D-sym over 7,925 km and 11,700 km using EDFA-only and hybrid amplification, respectively. A reach increase of 16% is…

Energy-efficient high-bandwidth interconnects play a key role in computing systems. Advances in silicon photonic electro-optic modulators and wavelength selective components have enabled the utilization of wavelength-division-multiplexing…

Based on a silicon travelling wave Mach-Zehnder modulator, we demonstrate record 168Gb/s (84Gbaud) and 160Gb/s (80Gbaud) PAM-4 direct detection transmission over 1km and 2km SSMF, respectively, with bit error rates below 20% HD-FEC…

We successfully transmitted a net 582-Gb/s probabilistically shaped PAM12 C-band signal over 11-km dispersion-shifted fibre and net 4$\times$526-Gb/s uniform PAM8 O-band signals over 2-km four-core fibre using a single-carrier 216-GBd IMDD…

We demonstrate, for the first time, a b-modulated dual-polarisation NFDM transmission in simulation, achieving a record net data rate of 400 Gbps (SE of 7.2 bit/s/Hz) over 960 km. The proposed scheme shows 1 dB Q-factor improvement over…

We generate and transmit 75-GHz-bandwidth OFDM signals over the air using three mutually frequency-locked lasers, achieving minimal frequency gap between the wireless W and D bands using optical-assisted approaches, resulting in 173.5 Gb/s…

We demonstrate hierarchical multiscale PAM-4 transmission combining 500 Mbps data transfer with optical-layer cryptographic key distribution at rates 24.14 Mbps and 8.38 Mbps secure against passive eavesdropper advantage 0 dB and 6 dB…

DMT at 25 Gbit/s, 50 Gbit/s and 100 Gbit/s in passive systems with electro-absorption modulators is investigated. Transmission in C- and O-band are compared, yielding up to 22 km reach, 100 Gbit/s in O-band. All results are obtained with a…

Over the years, communication speed of networks has increased from a few Kbps to several Mbps, as also the bandwidth demand, Communication Protocols, however have not improved to that extent. With the advent of Wavelength Division…

This paper presents the design and the realization of a 60 GHz wireless Gigabit Ethernet communication system. A differential encoded binary phase shift keying modulation (DBPSK) and differential demodulation schemes are adopted for the IF…

In this paper, we experimentally demonstrate that a silicon dual-drive Mach-Zehnder modulator (DD-MZM) has great potential for next-generation data center interconnections (DCIs). For intra-data center interconnections, 120 Gb/s Nyquist…