[MB2] Advanced PAM Systems

[MB2-2] ANN Equalizer for Performance Improvement of PAM-M Signals Using 1.3-μm Membrane DML-on-Silicon

〇Nikolaos-Panteleimon Diamantopoulos, Takuro Fujii, Hidetaka Nishi, Koji Takeda, Takaaki Kakitsuka, Shinji Matsuo (NTT Corporation, Japan)

Keywords:Transmission experiments for long haul, core and metro applications including data-center interconnect , Digital signal processing techniques for optical communications, Data Center Network and Subsystem, Si photonic and heterogeneous platform

A two-stage nonlinear equalization scheme based on a reduced Volterra filter and an artificial neural network (ANN) is studied for energy-efficient short-reach optical interconnects using 1.3-μm directly-modulated membrane lasers on silicon (DML-on-Si) and PAM-M signals.