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Time skew enabled vestigial sideband modulation for dispersion-tolerant direct–detection transmission

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Abstract

Fiber dispersion and square-law detection-induced power fading is a fundamental obstacle in intensity modulation with direct detection links. In this Letter, we propose a hardware-efficient vestigial sideband (VSB) transmitter to suppress such an impairment. By introducing an appropriate time skew between the differential arms of the Mach–Zehnder modulator, a VSB signal can be generated based on a single digital-to-analog convertor without optical filtering. At the receiver, a Volterra equalizer is utilized to mitigate the inter-symbol interference. In the proof-of-concept experiment, 32 Gbaud 4/6/8-ary pulse amplitude modulation signals can be successfully transmitted over an 80 km standard single-mode fiber with bit-error rates below the KP4, 7% hard-decision and 20% soft-decision forward error correction thresholds, respectively. The proposed scheme provides a promising and low-cost solution for high-speed metro and data center interconnect applications.

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