Deep Reservoir Computing for 100 Gbaud PAM6 IM/DD Transmission Impairment Mitigation
Mengyao Han, Muguang Wang, Yuchuan Fan, Toms Salgals, Hadrien Louchet, Richard Schatz, Markus Gruen, Fabio Pittalà, Benjamin Krüger, Thomas Dippon, Lu Zhang, Xianbin Yu, Sandis Spolītis, Vjačeslavs Bobrovs, Sergei Popov, Xiaodan Pang, Oskars Ozoliņš · 2023
We experimentally evaluate a deep Reservoir Computing (RC)-based post-equalization for 100 Gbaud PAM6 IM/DD transmissions. It achieves ~1 dB higher sensitivity than DFE, and ~50% implementation complexity reduction compared with the conventional RC configuration.