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SIEGFRIED

200G 16QAM
Non-Differential Transmission + SD-FEC
Heinz von Kirchbauer, Peter Kainzmaier, Thomas Bex, Stefano Calabr, Bernhard Spinnler, Rainer H. Derksen

Introduction

Setup
Interleaving
depth

Pilot spacing

OSNR

FPGA 1
PRBS
generator

Motivation

Mapper

In the presence of strong FEC the theoretical OSNR gain of non-differential over differential
transmission amounts to 1.0-1.5 dB
However, non-differential transmission is sensitive to carrier phase cycle slips

preFEC
BERT

Scope

Hard demapper

FPGA 2

Can we reliably realize the potential gain of non-differential transmission?

What is the impact of strong phase noise on SD-FEC?

FEC
encoder

postFEC
BERT

What are the limitations of a practical implementation for >100G transmission?

FEC
decoder

Soft demapper

Removal
training
symbols

Additive
noise
generator

Phase
noise
generator

Soft-decision FEC:
15% OH TPC
NCG: 11.1dB @ 1e-15
AWGN-thresh.: ~2e-2

High-precision digital
noise generator
accurate to 1 LSB up
to 8.5 .

Carrier
recovery

Equivalent
linewidth

Averaging
length
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The data-aided carrier


recovery uses training
symbols to correct the
cycle slips

Insertion
training
symbols

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Validation Platform

200G-16QAM: BER and ROSNR


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ROSNR [dB] @ 2e-2 preFEC BER

Synopsys HAPS-70 S24 with 2 Xilinx XC7V2000T FPGAs


capacity up to 24 million ASIC gates

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1E-03
1E-04

BER

FPGA1 : 70% utilization


FPGA2 : 40% utilization

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100 MHz system clock


24 Gbit/s datarate

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1030 interconnection signals

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TCL/TK GUI for controlling


and analysis

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diff longAv Lw0MHz


ndiff PO1.5% longAv Lw0MHz
diff longAv Lw1MHz
ndiff PO1.5% longAv Lw1MHz
diff longAv Lw2MHz
ndiff PO1.5% longAv Lw2MHz

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diff longAv
diff shortAv
ndiff PO1.5% longAv
ndiff PO1.5% shortAv
ndiff PO3% shortAv

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1.15dB

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0.86dB

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OSNR [dB]

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Linewidth [MHz]

The benefit of non-differential transmission persists and even grows in the presence of phase noise.
Only a small portion of the theoretical gain is sacrificed due to the insertion of the training symbols.
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200G-16QAM: Number of preFEC Bit Errors per FEC Word

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Probability

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OSNR: 13.64dB; LW: 6MHz; Pilot OH: 1.5% ; Short avg.

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Histogram
Binomial

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Probability

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1000

1100 1200 1300 1400 1500


Number of bit errors per FEC word

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Conclusions

OSNR: 13.49dB; LW: 6MHz; Pilot OH: 3.0% ; Short avg.

Histogram
Binomial

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Achievements

Development of advanced algorithms for SD-FEC and carrier recovery

Development of scalable high-speed architecture

Validation on an FPGA platform

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Results
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PreFEC BER = 2e-2


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PreFEC BER = 2e-2

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1000

1100 1200 1300 1400 1500


Number of bit errors per FEC word

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The use of training symbols (pilots) enables reliable non-differential transmission

Non-differential transmission outperforms differential transmission even in the presence of


strong phase noise

Through optimized setting of the carrier recovery the error burstiness due to the phase
noise and the impact on SD-FEC can be eliminated almost completely

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A coarse pilot spacing leads to significant deviations from the binomial distribution Error burstiness
With optimized pilot spacing the preFEC bit errors approach the binomial distribution Independent errors
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