READ ME File For 'Numerical and experimental study on the impact of chromatic dispersion on O-band direct-detection transmission' Dataset DOI: https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/D1813 ReadMe Author: Yang Hong, University of Southampton This dataset supports the publication: Yang Hong, Kyle R. H. Bottrill, Natsupa Taengnoi, Naresh K. Thipparapu, Yu Wang, Jayanta K. Sahu, David J. Richardson and Periklis Petropoulos Numerical and experimental study on the impact of chromatic dispersion on O-band direct-detection transmission OSA Applied Optics https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.424962 This dataset contains: Data supporting the following figures: Fig. 1. (a) CD values of SMF in the O-band, and (b) numerical results of 3-dB bandwidth of SMF for IM/DD transmission. Fig. 2. (a) The profiles of CD-induced power fading after a 70-km length of SMF using the 1320-nm and 1360-nm wavelengths, and (b) allowable transmission reach versus bandwidth of the electrical signal for 1320 nm and 1360 nm. Fig. 4. Optical spectra of the 50-Gb/s signals: (a) PAM4, (b) OOK, and (c) QPSK-SCM. Fig. 5. The transmission performance after a 10-km length of SMF at 1320 nm: (a) BER versus optical power to the PD and (b) SNR versus optical power to the PD; and at 1360 nm: (c) BER versus optical power to the PD, and (d) SNR versus optical power to the PD. Fig. 6. The transmission performance after 35-km length of SMF at 1320 nm: (a) BER versus optical power to the PD and (b) SNR versus optical power to the PD; and at 1360 nm: (c) BER versus optical power to the PD, and (d) SNR versus optical power to the PD. Fig. 7. The transmission performance after 70-km length of SMF at 1320 nm: (a) BER versus optical power to the PD and (b) SNR versus optical power to the PD; and at 1360 nm: (c) BER versus optical power to the PD, and (d) SNR versus optical power to the PD. Fig. 8. Comparison of detected signal’s electrical spectrum after (a) 10-km transmission using OOK, (b) 70-km transmission using OOK, (c) 10-km transmission using PAM4, (d) 70-km transmission using PAM4, (e) 10-km transmission using QPSK, and (f) 70-km transmission using QPSK. Fig. 9. Required optical power to the PD at the BER threshold of 2×10-2 for (a) 1320-nm transmission, and (b) 1360-nm transmission. Date of data collection: April, 2020 Information about geographic location of data collection: University of Southampton, U.K. Licence: Related projects: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Airguide Photonics Programme Grant (EP/P030181/1) and EPSRC PHOS project (EP/S002871/1) Date that the file was created: April, 2021