READ ME File For 'High-speed DD Transmission using a Silicon Receiver Co-integrated with a 28-nm CMOS Gain-tunable Fully-differential TIA' Dataset DOI: https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/D1567 ReadMe Author: Yang Hong, University of Southampton This dataset supports the publication: Yang Hong, Ke Li, Cosimo Lacava, Shenghao Liu, David J. Thomson, Fanfan Meng, Xiaoke Ruan, Fan Zhang, Graham T. Reed, and Periklis Petropoulos High-speed DD Transmission using a Silicon Receiver Co-integrated with a 28-nm CMOS Gain-tunable Fully-differential TIA IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology 10.1109/JLT.2020.3028221 This dataset contains: Data supporting the following figures, Fig. 3. Results of 50-Gb/s Nyquist OOK transmission in the B2B link. Fig. 4. Results of 50-Gb/s Nyquist OOK transmission in the 2-km length SSMF link. Fig. 5. Results of 100-Gb/s Nyquist PAM4 transmission in the B2B link. Fig. 6. Results of 100-Gb/s Nyquist PAM4 transmission in the 2-km length SSMF link. Fig. 7. BER and SNR results of the 50-Gb/s 4QAM DDO-OFDM transmission in the B2B link. Fig. 8. BER and SNR results of the 50-Gb/s 4QAM DDO-OFDM transmission in the 2-km length of SSMF link. Fig. 9. BER and SNR results of the 100-Gb/s 16QAM DDO-OFDM transmission in the B2B link. Fig. 10. BER and SNR results of the 100-Gb/s 16QAM DDO-OFDM transmission in the 2-km length of SSMF link. Fig. 11. BER versus ROP of 50-Gb/s and 100-Gb/s adaptively-loaded DDO-OFDM in the B2B link. Fig. 12. BER versus ROP of 50-Gb/s and 100-Gb/s adaptively-loaded DDO-OFDM in the 2-km length of SSMF link. Fig. 13. The maximum capacity versus Vct of the B2B link using the adaptively-loaded DDO-OFDM and the corresponding BER. Fig. 14. The maximum capacity versus Vct of the 2-km long SSMF link using the adaptively-loaded DDO-OFDM and the corresponding BER. Fig. 15. SNR versus frequency of the B2B link with Vct = 1.1 V. Fig. 16. SNR versus frequency of the 2-km long SSMF link with Vct = 1.0 V. Fig. 17. Results of the adaptively-loaded DDO-OFDM transmission using the differential output in the B2B link with Vct being 1.1 V: (a) loaded bits, (b) loaded power and (c) estimated SNR after transmission versus frequency. Fig. 18. Results of the adaptively-loaded DDO-OFDM transmission using the differential output in the 2-km long SSMF link with Vct being 1.0 V: (a) loaded bits, (b) loaded power and (c) estimated SNR after transmission versus frequency. Date of data collection: September, 2019 Information about geographic location of data collection: University of Southampton, UK Licence: Related projects: EPSRC through the SPFS Programme (EP/L00044X/1), COALESCE project (EP/P003990/1) and juNIPeRS project (EP/T007303/1) University Research Fellowship, Royal Society, UK National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61535002), and National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2018YFB1801204) Date that the file was created: September, 2020