Comparison of Coherent and IMDD Transceivers for Intra Datacenter Optical Interconnects

• DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2019.w1f.2
• Publication Date: 2019-02-25T16:01:42Z
• Authors: Jingchi Cheng; Chongjin Xie; Yizhao Chen; Xi Chen; Ming Tang; Songnian Fu
• Keywords: Transceiver; Application-specific integrated circuit; Power budget

We experimentally evaluated the performance of 400G coherent and IMDD transceivers for intra-datacenter interconnects, showed that can achieve a higher power budget with comparable ASIC consumption.