Title :
Impact of low-OSNR operation on the performance of advanced coherent optical transmission systems
Author :
Poggiolini, Pierluigi ; Carena, Andrea ; Jiang, Yizhang ; Bosco, Gabriella ; Curri, Vittorio ; Forghieri, Fabrizio
Author_Institution :
DET, Politec. di Torino, Turin, Italy
Abstract :
We find evidence that low-OSNR operation causes substantial penalty on the system maximum reach due to non-linearity generated by ASE noise and due to signal-power conversion into non-linear noise. Neglecting these effects may lead to quite substantial performance prediction error.
Keywords :
light transmission; ASE noise; advanced coherent optical transmission systems; low-OSNR operation; nonlinear noise; signal-power conversion; substantial performance prediction error; Analytical models; Bit error rate; Forward error correction; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical noise; Signal to noise ratio;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cannes
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2014.6964096
