Dataset in support of the journal paper 'Experimental investigation of BDFA-based O-band direct-detection transmission using an optical recirculating loop'

This dataset contains: Data supporting the following figures: Fig. 1. Insets: the optical spectra after the DD-MZM in the SSB-QPSK case (left), and the gain and NF performance of BDFA2 at an input power of -6 dBm (right). Fig. 2. (a) BER versus transmission distance for 50-Gb/s Nyquist PAM4 transmission over the BDFA-based optical recirculating loop, and (b) BER versus wavelength for the 50-Gb/s Nyquist PAM4 transmission after a 250-km length of SMF. Fig. 3. Achievable capacity versus wavelength for the adaptively-loaded DMT transmission over the O-band BDFA-based optical recirculating loop. Fig. 4. SNR profiles and the corresponding allocated bits for the 1340-nm transmission in the B2B and 200-km cases. Fig. 5. (a) BER versus transmission distance for 50-Gb/s SSB-QPSK transmission over the BDFA-based optical recirculating loop, and (b) BER versus wavelength for the 50-Gb/s SSB-QPSK transmission after 400-km and 550-km lengths of SMF. Fig. 6. The optical spectra of the 50-Gb/s/ SSB-QPSK WDM signals at the transmitter in the CWDM case (upper), and DWDM case (lower). Fig. 7. BER versus transmission distance for the 3×50-Gb/s Nyquist OOK CWDM transmission. Fig. 9. BER versus transmission distance for the 3×50-Gb/s SSB-QPSK CWDM transmission. Fig. 10. BER versus transmission distance for the 3×50-Gb/s DWDM transmission.