C-band 100 Gb/s Transmission over 40 km SSMF Using a Silicon Photonic Vestigial Sideband Transmitter Based on Dual-Drive MZM and Passive Optical Delay Line

Abstract

We demonstrate a filter-free silicon photonic VSB transmitter, enabling the C-band transmission of 56 Gbaud PAM4 over 40 km of dispersion-uncompensated SSMF under the 6.7% overhead HD-FEC with a single DAC channel and non-linear equalization.