100 Gbaud 4PAM Link for High Speed Optical Interconnects

Abstract

We demonstrate 100 Gbaud 4PAM transmission over 400 meters SMF with monolithically integrated 1550 nm DFB-TWEAM having 100 GHz 3-dB bandwidth with 2 dB ripple. We evaluate its capabilities to enable two lanes 400 GbE client-side links for optical interconnects.