A powerful equalizer based on modified SVM classifier without nonlinear kernel enabled 100-Gb/s NG-EPON System with 10-G Class

Abstract

For the future high-speed next-generation Ethernet passive optical network (NG-EPON) system, the low-cost system could be kept by adopting low bandwidth devices. To compensate for the signal distortion and improve the performance of high-speed bandwidth limited system, we propose a special feature vector construction to achieve a new equalizer scheme based on support vector machines (SVM) classifier. For the first time, we mathematically analyze the model of the bandwidth-limited optical transmission system and theoretically derive the linear separability of the proposed feature vector formed linear hyperplane in 100-Gb/s NG-EPON system. Furthermore, 4× 25 -Gb/s non-return to zero (NRZ) and 2× 50 -Gb/s four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-4) per wavelength transmission experiments with 10-G class optics system are demonstrated to prove the feasibility of our scheme. The experimental results show that, for 25-Gb/s/ λ NRZ transmission, compared to the decision feedback equalizer (DFE) and feed-forward equalizer (FFE), the receiver sensitivity achieved by our scheme can be improved by about 0.5-dB @BER=3.8e-3 with limited training sequence. For the 50-Gb/s/ λ PAM-4 case, the SVM-based equalization method improves the receiver sensitivity for about 1-dB.