Optical PAM4 transceiver
The two cascaded phase modulator in each branch modulates the NRZ electrical signal to a four phase fixed power optical signal; when combined by the coupler,
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PAM4 is an optical modulation technique that allows for higher data rates and increased spectral efficiency compared to NRZ. In PAM4, each symbol represents multiple bits of information by varying the amplitude of the optical pulse to four distinct levels. PAM4 is a four-level pulse amplitude-modulated signal, which can be electrical or optical. In this example, you will learn how to: The system in this example contains the following elements: This page contains 2 sections. For three decades, non-return-to-zero (NRZ) modulation — representing one bit per transmitted symbol — was sufficient to carry each successive generation of Ethernet from 1 Gbps through to 25 Gbps per lane.