There are three ways to improve the transmission rate of optical communication, increasing the modulation rate, increasing the number of WDM channels, and using signals with higher modulation formats. PAM4 is a kind of PAM modulatio. There are three ways to improve the transmission rate of optical communication, increasing the modulation rate, increasing the number of WDM channels, and using signals with higher modulation formats. PAM4 is a kind of PAM modulation technology, which uses 4 different signal levels for signal transmission, and each symbol period can represent 2 bit. Generally, the techniques for realizing PAM4 modulation are divided into two categories, namely, the digital DAC implementation method based on DSP or the Combine method based on analog. The mainstream analog method is based on the MSB+LSB Combiner to realize the PAM4 signal, and there are two NRZ signals for the addition operation. The mainstream. Passive coupling of two NRZ pattern generatorsThe early bit error detectors used two channels of NRZ high-speed pattern generator output signals, and then combined them into one channel of PAM4 signal through passive radio frequency devices (that is, through attenuators and synthesizers). PAM4 signal generators are all extended in this way. The specific implementation of this method is to rely on the NRZ code generator to output two NRZ signals with exactly the same code rate, connect it to an external passive broadband synthesizer throu. AWG-based PAM4 pattern generatorThe arbitrary waveform generator AWG g.