The data center interconnect is moving toward 1.6 Tbit/s, which is posing challenges for reaching a solution that is cost effective and technically feasible. Intensity modulation and direct detection (IM/DD) transmission over O-Band using standard single-mode fiber is a potential low-cost solution. However, limitations imposed by chromatic dispersion and four-wave-mixing (FWM) needs to be understood, such as in the case when operating at 8 x 100 GBaud PAM4 in LWDM configuration. In this paper, a statistical approach has been adopted to evaluate the probability of outage by considering practical link parameter fluctuations such as wavelength variation and drift, polarization variation and the natural variation of the fibers zero dispersion wavelength. Numerical modeling shows that IM/DD can be used up to distances of 5 km if transmission power is maintained under 0 dBm. Coherent transmission can extend the distance beyond 5 km due to its signal processing capabilities. However, it is desirable to reduce its complexity for cost effective and power efficient data center applications. Using dual wavelength transmission and DP-16 QAM transceivers, which share similar components to the IM/DD counterpart, the feasibility of simplifying this architecture is studied. The analysis shows that the complexity of the coherent approach can be reduced without significant penalties for distances up to 10 km.
KEYWORDS: Digital signal processing, Signal processing, Polarization, Analog to digital converters, Power consumption, Tunable filters, Signal filtering, Sampling rates, Optical engineering, Homodyne detection
Coherent optical communication critically relies on efficient digital signal processing (DSP). We demonstrate a lite DSP scheme to reduce the transmission cost and power consumption, which is mainly realized by reducing the sampling rate and simplifying the DSP algorithm. On the one hand, the baud-rate sampling technique based on the integral circuit can reduce the amount of data processing in DSP. On the other hand, we proposed a simplified joint modified constant modulus algorithm (MCMA) and phase-dependent decision-directed least mean square (DD-LMS) algorithm for adaptive blind polarization demultiplexing and phase recovery in which the butterfly structure is no longer needed for DD-LMS. And we compare the proposed simplified algorithm with the joint traditional CMA and blind phase search and the MCMA, in terms of performance in the 80-Gbaud dual-polarization 64QAM homodyne detection system. The results show that the proposed lite DSP mechanism can effectively reduce the power consumption of DSP by sub-rate sampling and simplifying the corresponding algorithm, which provides an alternative scheme for low-power optical interconnection of data centers.
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