Digital Equalization of Ultrafast Data Using Real-time Burst Sampling
Ali Motafakker-Fard, Shalabh Gupta, and Bahram Jalali

TL;DR
This paper demonstrates digital equalization of ultrafast 40Gbps data using real-time burst sampling with a photonic time-stretch ADC, evaluating feed-forward and decision feedback equalizers.
Contribution
Introduces a novel application of real-time burst sampling with photonic time-stretch ADC for ultrafast data equalization, including evaluation of different equalizer types.
Findings
Successful digital equalization at 40Gbps data rate.
Effective performance of both feed-forward and decision feedback equalizers.
Validation of real-time burst sampling technique for high-speed data processing.
Abstract
We demonstrate digital equalization of 40Gbps data enabled by use of Real-time Burst Sampling (RBS) with photonic time-stretch A/D converter. Evaluation of a feed-forward equalizer and a decision feedback equalizer is also shown.
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Taxonomy
TopicsAdvanced Optical Sensing Technologies · Optical Network Technologies · Advanced Photonic Communication Systems
