Mitigation of Pattern-Dependent Effect in SOA at O-Band by Using DSP

Semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) is regarded as a promising candidate to amplify the optical signal in next-generation access network, especially for O-band signal transmission. However, the SOA-based system suffers from the pattern-dependent effect due to its gain saturation. Compared to digital signal processing (DSP) at receiver, DSP in the transmitter can reduce implementation complexity, which is attractive for the multi-user system. In this paper, we propose three methods to mitigate the pattern-dependent effect in SOA and compare their performance based on: 1) look-up-table (LUT) considering pattern-dependent effect, 2) pre-distortion without considering pattern-dependent effect, 3) probabilistic shaping (PS). The performance of three mitigation methods is investigated in an intensity modulation with direct detection (IM/DD) 4-ary pulse-amplitude-modulation (PAM-4) transmission system at O-band. Our research results show that all these schemes can improve the receiver dynamic range of PAM-4 signals at 50 Gbit/s and 100 Gbit/s. Moreover, PS and LUT can also improve the receiver dynamic range of 75-Gbit/s PAM-8 signals.

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