A Novel Machine Learning-based Equalizer for a Downstream 100G PAM-4 PON

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Chen Shao, Elias G. Giacoumidis, Shi Li, Jialei Li, Michael Färber, Tobias Käfer, André Richter

Published: 2024, Last Modified: 08 Aug 2024OFC 2024EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: A frequency-calibrated SCINet (FC-SCINet) equalizer is proposed for downstream 100G PON with 28.7 dB path loss. At 5 km, FC-SCINet improves the BER by 88.87% compared to FFE and a 3-layer DNN with 10.57% lower complexity.