Vol. 46, Issue 3, pp. 409-419 (2016)
Keywords
vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL), multimode fiber (MMF), wavelength division multiplexing (WDM)
Abstract
We investigate an alternative 100G solution for optical short-range data center links. The presented solution adopts wavelength division multiplexing technology to transmit four channels of 25G over a multimode fiber. A comparative performance analysis of the wavelength-grid selection for the wavelength division multiplexing data link is reported. The analysis includes transmissions over standard optical multimode fiber (OM): OM2, OM3 and OM4.