Low complexity sub-baud rate sampling reception in a bandwidth-limited IM/DD system.

This Letter presents what is to our knowledge a novel approach to reduce the digital signal processing (DSP) complexity in intensity modulation and direct detection (IM/DD) systems, which is critical for short-reach optical communication systems with severe bandwidth limitations. We propose a sub-baud rate sampling reception method utilizing a polyphase feedforward equalizer-based maximum likelihood sequence estimation (PFFE-MLSE), which could operate effectively under a sampling rate of 0.6 samples per symbol.

Precise pointing angle deviation measurement for beaconless laser communication.

How to measure the pointing angle precisely without the beacon light is crucial for beaconless laser communication. The conventional intensity method directly measures the intensity of a part of the communication signal beam, which has low sensitivity. We propose the characteristic signal method by superimposing a low-frequency sinusoidal signal on the communication signal to promote the measuring sensitivity.

Complexity curtailed MLSE equalizer based on a compact look-up-table for C-band DSB IM/DD transmission.

Chromatic dispersion appears to be a major performance limiting problem in optical intensity modulation direct detection (IM/DD) transmission systems, especially for a double-sideband (DSB) signal. We propose a complexity-reduced look-up-table based maximum likelihood sequence estimation (LUT-MLSE) for DSB C-band IM/DD transmission based on pre-decision-assisted trellis compression and a path-decision-assisted Viterbi algorithm. To further compress the size of the LUT and reduce the length of the training sequence, we proposed a finite impulse response (FIR) and LUT hybrid channel model for the LUT-MLSE.

56-Gb/s/λ C-band DSB IM/DD PAM-4 40-km SSMF transmission employing a multiplier-free MLSE equalizer.

Chromatic dispersion, which introduces pattern-dependent inter-symbol interference (ISI), appears to be a long-standing performance limiting problem in optical intensity modulation direct detection (IM/DD) transmission systems. In this paper, we propose a multiplier-free maximum likelihood sequence estimation (MLSE) equalizer for C-band double-sideband IM/DD transmission. It models the IM/DD channel with dispersion-induced ISI and Gaussian noise.