SOA-Amplified 100 Gbit/s/λ PAM-8 WDM Transmission for Optical Access Networks Enabled by Probabilistic Shaping
Author:
Troncoso-Costas Marcos,Reza Ahmed Galib,Browning Colm,Diaz-Otero Francisco,Barry Liam
Abstract
We demonstrate a 4-channel SOA-amplified 100 Gbit/s/λ probabilistically shaped PAM-8 C-band transmission for next-generation optical access networks. Power budgets up to 30.25 dB were obtained using T-spaced equalization on a 20-GHz bandwidth-limited system.
Publisher
Optica Publishing Group