100Gb/s 16-QAM Transmission over 80 km SSMF Using a Silicon Photonic Modulator Enabled VSB-IM/DD System

We demonstrate a VSB-IM/DD system using silicon photonic modulator. 25 GBaud 16 QAM over 80 km at a BER below 3.8×10
^-3
is achieved with either KK detection or our nonlinear equalization based SSBI mitigation method.