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Colored-Noise Suppressed Decision Feed-Forward Equalizer for Passive Optical Networks

  • Sai Chen
  • , Ji Zhou
  • , Haide Wang
  • , Mark Liu
  • , Qingxin Lu
  • , Weiping Liu
  • , Changyuan Yu

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Abstract

Driven by bandwidth-hungry applications, 50G passive optical network (PON) has been standardized towards the upstream line rates of 25Gb/s (asymmetric mode) or 50Gbps (symmetric mode). For the asymmetric mode of 50G PON, the legacy 10G-class components with limited bandwidth can be reused with digital signal processing to achieve the upstream line rate of 25Gb/s and maintain cost efficiency. To deal with the limited bandwidth-induced inter-symbol interference (ISI), the feed-forward equalizer (FFE) is the most commonly used. However, the in-band noise will be colored and amplified after using FFE, which will degrade the performance. This paper proposes the decision FFE (DFFE) to deal with the limited bandwidth-induced ISI and suppress the colored noise. The experimental results of the 25Gb/s on-off keying using 10G-class components show approximately 0.5dB improvement in receiver sensitivity at 20% soft-decision forward error correction limit after using DFFE compared to FFE.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2024 Asia Communications and Photonics Conference, ACP 2024 and International Conference on Information Photonics and Optical Communications, IPOC 2024
PublisherOptica Publishing Group (formerly OSA)
Pages1-4
ISBN (Electronic)9798350379266
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2024
Event2024 Asia Communications and Photonics Conference, ACP 2024 and International Conference on Information Photonics and Optical Communications, IPOC 2024 - Beijing, China
Duration: 2 Nov 20245 Nov 2024

Publication series

NameAsia Communications and Photonics Conference, ACP
ISSN (Print)2162-108X

Conference

Conference2024 Asia Communications and Photonics Conference, ACP 2024 and International Conference on Information Photonics and Optical Communications, IPOC 2024
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period2/11/245/11/24

Keywords

  • colored noise
  • decision feedforward equalizer
  • feed-forward equalizer
  • inter-symbol interference
  • Passive optical network

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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