Timing-Jitter tolerant Nyquist pulse for terahertz communications

Abstract

Seamless integration of terahertz wireless communications with existing optical access networks can potentially offer tens of gigahertz of channel bandwidth. However, the timing-jitter exhibited by the electronics-based transceivers is a key transmission impairments that tends to ceil the performance of these hybrid access networks, especially at high transmission baud rates. In this work, we propose a sinc-Lorentzian Nyquist pulse shape that outperforms the conventional raised-cosine and the better-than raised-cosine pulse shapes under the influence of timing-jitter up to 35% of the symbol duration. Experimental demonstrations are carried out using a 311 GHz photonic-terahertz system operating at a standard bit rate of 1.44 Gbit/s to investigate the robustness of the three pulse shapes against timing-jitter. It is confirmed that the proposed pulse shape is highly-tolerant to timing-jitter as well as the nonlinearity exhibited by terahertz systems, and hence, can improve the bit error rate performance by an order of magnitude when the average timing-jitter is as large as 0.24 ns. The proposed pulse shape is a critical step for designing ultra-high-speed terahertz communications links with improved robustness to timing-jitter.