Chromatic Dispersion Compensation Using Full-Field Maximum-Likelihood Sequence Estimation

Author

Zhao, Jian ; McCarthy, Mary E. ; Ellis, Andrew D. ; Gunning, Paul

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Univ. Coll. Cork, Cork, Ireland

Volume

28

Issue

7

fYear

2010

fDate

4/1/2010 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1023

Lastpage

1031

Abstract

We investigate full-field detection-based maximum- likelihood sequence estimation (MLSE) for chromatic dispersion compensation in 10 Gbit/s OOK optical communication systems. Important design criteria are identified to optimize the system performance. It is confirmed that approximately 50% improvement in transmission reach can be achieved compared to conventional direct-detection MLSE at both 4 and 16 states. It is also shown that full-field MLSE is more robust to the noise and the associated noise amplifications in full-field reconstruction, and consequently exhibits better tolerance to nonoptimized system parameters than full-field feedforward equalizer. Experiments over 124 km spans of field-installed single-mode fiber without optical dispersion compensation using full-field MLSE verify the theoretically predicted performance benefits.

Keywords

amplitude shift keying; compensation; maximum likelihood sequence estimation; optical communication equipment; optical design techniques; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; optical noise; MLSE; OOK-based optical transmission; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; chromatic dispersion compensation; field-installed single-mode fiber; full-field detection-based maximum-likelihood sequence estimation; full-field electronic dispersion compensation; full-field feedforward equalizer; modulation; optical communication systems; optical design; optical dispersion compensation; optical noise amplification; Chromatic dispersion (CD); detection; electronic dispersion compensation (EDC); modulation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2009.2038240

Filename

5353729