[WP-B] Poster Session 2

[WP-B-21] FEC-assist Decision-Directed Equalization for Bandwidth-limited Optical Interconnection

○Xuanwei Liu¹, Yuyao Wen¹, Junyuan Song¹, Shaonan Liu¹, Jun Ming¹, Hailian He¹, Mujia Mu¹, Ze Dong¹ (1. Beijing Institute of Technology (China))

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Transmission impairments and their mitigations

We propose a FEC-assist decision-directed equalizer to mitigate inter-symbol interference in bandwidth-limited IM/DD systems. Experimental validation on a 160 Gbit/s PAM4 interconnction demonstrates over 1.5 dB receiver sensitivity improvement compared with conventional methods.