• DocumentCode
    1833160
  • Title

    A novel channel estimation method for PDM-OFDM enabling improved tolerance to WDM nonlinearity

  • Author

    Liu, Xiang ; Buchali, Fred

  • Author_Institution
    Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    22-26 March 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    We propose a novel channel estimation method for polarization-division-multiplexed (PDM) OFDM that improves the signal tolerance to nonlinear cross-phase modulation in WDM transmission. The improvement is quantified numerically in a 112-Gb/s PDM-OFDM based WDM system.
  • Keywords
    OFDM modulation; channel estimation; optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; wavelength division multiplexing; PDM-OFDM enabling; WDM nonlinearity tolerance; bit rate 112 Gbit/s; channel estimation method; optical fibre communication; polarization-division-multiplexing; Channel estimation; Wavelength division multiplexing; (060.1660) Coherent communications; (060.4370) Nonlinear optics, fibers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication - incudes post deadline papers, 2009. OFC 2009. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2606-5
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-865-0
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5032983