Abstract

In this article, a joint application of simplified Tomlinson-Harashima precoding (THP) and M-log-maximum a posteriori probability (M-log-MAP) decoder at transceivers is proposed for low complexity faster than Nyquist (FTN) 4-ary pulse amplitude modulation (PAM4) signaling. A THP with only two taps is applied at the transmitter for FTN-induced inter-symbol interference elimination and equalization-induced noise amplification issue mitigation, which effectively relieves the burden of the receiver. At the receiver, a low complexity M-log-MAP decoder is equipped for residual impairments cancellation, thus a feedback channel is not required to accurately obtain the channel state information for the transmitter. Taking advantage of this collaborative approach, the proposed scheme performs much better than applying the two schemes separately. We experimentally demonstrate the proposed scheme in 70, 75, and 80 GBaud PAM4 systems with a 32-GHz brick-wall filter, corresponding to 0.914, 0.853, and 0.8 FTN compression factor, respectively. The results show that the 80 GBaud PAM4 signal is successfully transmitted over 2-km single mode fiber with the bit-error-rate (BER) under the 7% hard-decision forward error correction (HD-FEC) threshold of 3.8 × 10⁻³. It is also observed that the proposed scheme shows about 0.7 dB receiver sensitivity improvement compared to the error propagation-free decision feedback equalizer, namely the performance upper bound of the THP, at BER of 7% HD-FEC threshold in a 75 GBaud FTN PAM4 system. According to the experimental results, the proposed scheme is a promising solution for bandwidth-starved low-cost intra-datacenter interconnect.

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