Nonlinear Impairment Compensation for Polarization-Division Multiplexed WDM Transmission Using Digital Backward Propagation

Author

Yaman, F. ; Li, Guifang

Author_Institution

CREOL, Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

Volume

1

Issue

2

fYear

2009

Firstpage

144

Lastpage

152

Abstract

It is shown experimentally that impairments induced by dispersion and Kerr nonlinearity can be compensated digitally for polarization-division multiplexed wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) transmission. The method of digital backward propagation based on solving the Manakov equation can be used to efficiently compensate for the nonlinear interactions between orthogonally polarized channels.

Keywords

multiwave mixing; optical Kerr effect; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre losses; optical fibre polarisation; wavelength division multiplexing; Kerr nonlinearity; Manakov equation; WDM transmission; coherent optical fiber communication; digital backward propagation; four-wave mixing; nonlinear impairment compensation; nonlinear interactions; orthogonally polarized channels; polarization-dependent loss; polarization-division multiplexing; polarization-mode dispersion; wavelength division multiplexing; Chirp modulation; Fiber nonlinear optics; Four-wave mixing; Nonlinear equations; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber polarization; Optical mixing; Optical polarization; Photonics; Wavelength division multiplexing; Coherent optical communication; four-wave mixing; polarization-dependent loss; polarization-mode dispersion;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Journal, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1943-0655

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JPHOT.2009.2028157

Filename

5170037