Clock Synchronized Transmission of 51.2 GBd Optical Packets for Optically Switched Data Center Interconnects

• DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2021.th4e.2
• Publication Date: 2021-10-20T15:43:32Z
• Authors: Zichuan Zhou; Kari Clark; Callum Deakin; Petros Laccotripes; Zhixin Liu
• Keywords: 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 02 engineering and technology

We demonstrate clock-synchronized transmission of 128-byte optical packets at 51.2GBd. We study the impact of reference clock phase noise on the clock phase misalignment and system scalability for high baud rate DC interconnects.