Abstract
Insufficient receiver bandwidth destroys the orthogonality of Nyquist-shaped pulses, generating inter-symbol interference (ISI). We propose using an optical pre-sampler to alleviate the requirement on the receiver bandwidth through pulse re-shaping. Experiments and simulations using an optically shaped 40-Gbaud Nyquist-shaped on-off-keying signal (N-OOK) show receiver sensitivity improvements of 4- and 7.1-dB under 18- and 11-GHz receiver electrical bandwidths, respectively.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 24007-24017 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Optics Express |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue number | 17 |
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| Publication status | Published - 19 Aug 2019 |