Telecommunications Science ›› 2022, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (7): 43-56.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.1000-0801.2022159

• Topic: Future Optical Communication Technology • Previous Articles     Next Articles

Advanced optical receiver architectures for ultra-high capacity but low-cost short-reach optical interconnects

Honglin JI1, Xueyang LI1, Zhixue HE1, Weisheng HU1,2, Shieh William3   

  1. 1 Institute of advanced bearer network, Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen 518055, China
    2 State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
    3 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne, MelbourneVIC 3010, Australia
  • Revised:2022-06-24 Online:2022-07-20 Published:2022-07-01
  • Supported by:
    The National Key Research and Development Program of China(2020YFB1806400);Peng Cheng Laboratory Self-established Program(PCL2021A04);Peng Cheng Laboratory Self-established Program(PCL2022AS13)

Abstract:

The deployment of emerging network infrastructure such as hyper-scale datacenters urgently requires ultra-high capacity but low-cost short-reach optical interconnects.Conventional intensity modulation and direct detection possesses a simple receiver structure but can only recover the intensity information, which restrains the capability of further scaling up the system capacity.Standard coherent detection can deliver high-order modulation formats and achieve high-capacity transmission.Nevertheless, the coherent transceiver requiring expensive narrow-linewidth laser sources and computation-intensive digital signal processing precludes its wide applications in short-reach systems.The advanced direct-detection optical receivers aim to combine the advantages of both direct detection and coherent detection and bridge the gap between them.Therefore, the advanced optical receivers are mainly based on self-coherent detection.Advanced single-polarization, dual-polarization, and few-mode optical receiver architectures wereintroduced.The proposed advanced optical receivers can retrieve the optical field via direct detection without using the narrow-linewidth lasers, which enables the realization of ultra-high capability but low-cost short-reach optical interconnects.

Key words: short-reach optical interconnects, direct detection, self-coherent detection, self-coherent homodyne detection, mode-division multiplexing transmission

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