Title : 
MLSE-based nonlinearity mitigation for WDM 112 Gbit/s PDM-QPSK transmissions with digital coherent receiver
         
        
            Author : 
Stojanovic, N. ; Huang, Y. ; Hauske, F.N. ; Fang, Y. ; Chen, M. ; Xie, C. ; Xiong, Q.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Eur. Res. Center, Huawei Technol. Duesseldorf GmbH, Munich, Germany
         
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We investigate the performance of linear equalization combined with MLSE in long-haul transmission. In the nonlinear regime with high launch powers Q-factor improvement up to 1.4 dB is demonstrated with a quaternary state model.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Q-factor; maximum likelihood sequence estimation; nonlinear optics; optical receivers; quadrature phase shift keying; wavelength division multiplexing; MLSE-based nonlinearity mitigation; PDM-QPSK transmission; Q-factor; WDM; bit rate 112 Gbit/s; digital coherent receiver; linear equalization; long-haul transmission; maximum likelihood sequence estimation; polarization division multiplexed quaternary phase shift keying; quaternary state model; Bit error rate; Complexity theory; Gain; Maximum likelihood estimation; Measurement; Memory management; Phase shift keying;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Los Angeles, CA
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4577-0213-6