Low-complexity and low-latency equalization technique – probabilistic noise cancellation

Both inside data centers (DCs) and in short optical links between data centers (DC campuses), intensity-modulation and direct-detection (IMDD) systems using four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM4) will dominate this decade due to low transceiver price and power consumption. The next DC transcei...

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Veröffentlicht in:Optics express Jg. 32; H. 5; S. 6945
Hauptverfasser: Stojanović, Nebojša, Lin, Youxi, Rahman, Talha, Calabrò, Stefano, Hossain, Md Sabbir-Bin, Wettlin, Tom Jonas, Kuschnerov, Maxim
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: United States 26.02.2024
ISSN:1094-4087, 1094-4087
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Zusammenfassung:Both inside data centers (DCs) and in short optical links between data centers (DC campuses), intensity-modulation and direct-detection (IMDD) systems using four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM4) will dominate this decade due to low transceiver price and power consumption. The next DC transceiver generation based on 100 Gbaud PAM4 will require advanced digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms and more powerful forward error correction (FEC) codes. Because of bandwidth limitations, the conventional DC DSP based on a few-tap linear feed-forward equalizer (FFE) is likely to be upgraded to more complex but still low-complexity Volterra equalizers followed by a noise whitening filter and either a maximum likelihood sequence estimation (MLSE) or a maximum a posteriori probability (MAP) algorithm. However, stringent power consumption and latency requirements may limit the use of complex algorithms such as decision feedback equalizer (DFE) or MLSE/MAP in DC networks (DCN). In this paper, we introduce a low-complexity, low-latency algorithm based on a feedforward structure, yielding a performance between DFE and MLSE. We call the novel equalization algorithm probabilistic noise cancellation (PNC), since it weights noise patterns based on their probabilities in the presence of bandwidth limitations. The probabilistic weighting is efficiently exploited in correcting correlated errors caused by noise coloring in the FFE.
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ISSN:1094-4087
1094-4087
DOI:10.1364/OE.514239