Performance analysis of communication links based on VCSEL and silicon photonics technology for high-capacity data-intensive scenario

A. Boletti, Pierpaolo Boffi, Paolo Martelli, M. Ferrario, M. Martinelli

Optics Express · 2015 · 23 citations · 24 references

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To face the increased demand for bandwidth, cost-effectiveness and simplicity of future Ethernet data communications, a comparison between two different solutions based on directly-modulated VCSEL sources and Silicon Photonics technologies is carried out. Also by exploiting 4-PAM modulation, the transmission of 50-Gb/s and beyond capacity per channel is analyzed by means of BER performance. Applications for optical backplane, very short reach and in case of client-optics networks and intra and inter massive data centers communications (up to 10 km) are taken into account. A comparative analysis based on the power consumption is also proposed.

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