Zhou, Zichuan; Clark, Kari; Deakin, Callum; Liu, Zhixin; (2022) Clock Synchronized Transmission of 51.2GBd Optical Packets for Optically Switched Data Center Interconnects. Journal of Lightwave Technology (In press).

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Abstract

Optical switching has attracted significant attention in recent research on data center networks (DCNs) as it is a promising viable route for the further scaling of hyper scale data centers, so that DCNs can keep pace with the rapid growth of machine-to-machine traffic. It has been shown that optical clock synchronization enables sub-nanosecond clock and data recovery time and is crucial to high performance optically switched DCN. Moreover, the interconnect data rate is expected to increase from the current 100 Gb/s per fiber to scale to 800 Gb/s and beyond, requiring high baud rate signaling at >50 GBd. Thus, future optically switched DCN should support >50GBd data transmission with optical clock synchronization. Here, we demonstrate the clock- synchronized transmission of 128-byte optical packets at 51.2 GBd and study the impact of reference clock phase noise on system performance, focusing on the tolerance to the clock phase misalignment that affects the system scalability and reliability. By comparing the tolerable sampling clock phase offsets using different reference clocks, we show that a clock phase offset window of about 8ps could be achieved with a <0.2ps source clock. Furthermore, we model and numerically study the de- correlation of clock phase noise. This allows the total jitter to be estimated, and thereby, the estimation of the transmission performance for future generations of high baud rate, clock synchronized DC interconnects.

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