Low-Complexity Time-Domain Averaging-Based DAC Clock Tone Leakage Compensation for Short-Reach PAM4 Transmission

High sampling-rate digital-to-analog converters (DAC) are usually applied in optical fiber communication systems for the signal generation with advanced modulation formats such as four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM4). There exist various imperfections for high sampling-rate DACs. Clock tone...

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Main Authors: Ming Chen, Long Zhang, Hui Zhou, Qinghui Chen
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Published: IEEE 2020-01-01
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description High sampling-rate digital-to-analog converters (DAC) are usually applied in optical fiber communication systems for the signal generation with advanced modulation formats such as four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM4). There exist various imperfections for high sampling-rate DACs. Clock tone leakage (CTL) is one of the imperfections and may seriously degrade the bit error rate (BER) performance, especially for single-carrier transmission systems. In this paper, we study a low-complexity time-domain averaging (TDA) based CTL compensation (TDA-CTLC) method for short-reach PAM4 transmission. By numerical simulation, we investigate the impacts of chromatic dispersion, CTL interference-to-signal power ratio (ISPR), and vertical resolution of the analog-to-digital converter on the BER performance. The results exhibit that the TDA-CTLC enabled PAM4 transmission system in the presence of a wide range of ISPR has a similar BER performance with the one without CTL interference. Moreover, we experimentally evaluate the compensation performance of the TDA-CTLC in a directly-modulated laser-based short-reach PAM4 transmission system. Up to −4 dB ISPR can be compensated with a slight BER performance degradation due to nonlinear distortions.
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spelling doaj-art-e808c13d78004325a5cbb12ece6365232025-08-20T03:32:33ZengIEEEIEEE Photonics Journal1943-06552020-01-0112311410.1109/JPHOT.2020.29930469089294Low-Complexity Time-Domain Averaging-Based DAC Clock Tone Leakage Compensation for Short-Reach PAM4 TransmissionMing Chen0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8860-7023Long Zhang1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4199-1106Hui Zhou2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8564-3851Qinghui Chen3https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4840-4875School of Physics and Electronics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, ChinaSchool of Physics and Electronics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, ChinaCollege of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, ChinaCollege of Computer and Communication, Hunan University of Technology, Zhuzhou, ChinaHigh sampling-rate digital-to-analog converters (DAC) are usually applied in optical fiber communication systems for the signal generation with advanced modulation formats such as four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM4). There exist various imperfections for high sampling-rate DACs. Clock tone leakage (CTL) is one of the imperfections and may seriously degrade the bit error rate (BER) performance, especially for single-carrier transmission systems. In this paper, we study a low-complexity time-domain averaging (TDA) based CTL compensation (TDA-CTLC) method for short-reach PAM4 transmission. By numerical simulation, we investigate the impacts of chromatic dispersion, CTL interference-to-signal power ratio (ISPR), and vertical resolution of the analog-to-digital converter on the BER performance. The results exhibit that the TDA-CTLC enabled PAM4 transmission system in the presence of a wide range of ISPR has a similar BER performance with the one without CTL interference. Moreover, we experimentally evaluate the compensation performance of the TDA-CTLC in a directly-modulated laser-based short-reach PAM4 transmission system. Up to −4 dB ISPR can be compensated with a slight BER performance degradation due to nonlinear distortions.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9089294/Clock tone leakage (CTL)Digital-to-analog converter (DAC)pulse amplitude modulation (PAM)time-domain averaging (TDA)
spellingShingle Ming Chen
Long Zhang
Hui Zhou
Qinghui Chen
Low-Complexity Time-Domain Averaging-Based DAC Clock Tone Leakage Compensation for Short-Reach PAM4 Transmission
IEEE Photonics Journal
Clock tone leakage (CTL)
Digital-to-analog converter (DAC)
pulse amplitude modulation (PAM)
time-domain averaging (TDA)
title Low-Complexity Time-Domain Averaging-Based DAC Clock Tone Leakage Compensation for Short-Reach PAM4 Transmission
title_full Low-Complexity Time-Domain Averaging-Based DAC Clock Tone Leakage Compensation for Short-Reach PAM4 Transmission
title_fullStr Low-Complexity Time-Domain Averaging-Based DAC Clock Tone Leakage Compensation for Short-Reach PAM4 Transmission
title_full_unstemmed Low-Complexity Time-Domain Averaging-Based DAC Clock Tone Leakage Compensation for Short-Reach PAM4 Transmission
title_short Low-Complexity Time-Domain Averaging-Based DAC Clock Tone Leakage Compensation for Short-Reach PAM4 Transmission
title_sort low complexity time domain averaging based dac clock tone leakage compensation for short reach pam4 transmission
topic Clock tone leakage (CTL)
Digital-to-analog converter (DAC)
pulse amplitude modulation (PAM)
time-domain averaging (TDA)
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9089294/
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