Effective 100 Gb/s IM/DD 850-nm Multi- and Single-Mode VCSEL Transmission Through OM4 MMF

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Contributors

  • Rafael Puerta - , Technical University of Denmark (Author)
  • Mikel Agustin - , VI Systems GmbH (Author)
  • Łukasz Chorchos - , Warsaw University of Technology (Author)
  • Jerzy Toński - , Warsaw University of Technology (Author)
  • Jörg R. Kropp - , VI Systems GmbH (Author)
  • Nikolay N. Ledentsov - , VI Systems GmbH (Author)
  • Vitaly A. Shchukin - , VI Systems GmbH (Author)
  • Nikolay N. Ledentsov - , VI Systems GmbH (Author)
  • Ronny Henker - , Chair of Circuit Design and Network Theory (Author)
  • Idelfonso Tafur Monroy - , Technical University of Denmark (Author)
  • Juan José Vegas Olmos - , Technical University of Denmark (Author)
  • Jarosław P. Turkiewicz - , Warsaw University of Technology (Author)

Abstract

To cope with the ever increasing data traffic demands in modern data centers, new approaches and technologies must be explored. Short range optical data links play a key role in this scenario, enabling very high speed data rate links. Recently, great research efforts are being made to improve the performance of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) based transmission links, which constitute a cost-effective solution desirable for massive deployments. In this paper, we experimentally demonstrate intensity-modulation direct-detection transmissions with a data rate of 107.5 Gb/s over 10 m of OM4 multimode fiber (MMF) using a multimode VCSEL at 850 nm, and up to 100 m of OM4 MMF using a single-mode VCSEL at 850 nm. Measured bit error rates were below 7% overhead forward error correction limit of 3.8e-03, thus, achieving an effective bit rate of 100.5 Gb/s. These successful transmissions were achieved by means of the multiband approach of carrierless amplitude phase modulation.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)423-429
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of Lightwave Technology
Volume35
Issue number3
Publication statusPublished - 2017
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

Scopus 85015952586
ORCID /0000-0002-1851-6828/work/142256733

Keywords

Research priority areas of TU Dresden

Keywords

  • Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers, Optical transmitters, Optical fiber communication, Phase modulation, Optical fiber filters, Forward error correction