Title :
Stochastic backpropagation for coherent optical communications
Author :
Jiang, Nan ; Gong, Yan ; Karout, Johnny ; Wymeersch, Henk ; Johannisson, Pontus ; Karlsson, Magnus ; Agrell, Erik ; Andrekson, Peter A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Signals & Syst., Chalmers Univ. of Technol., Gothenburg, Sweden
Abstract :
We present stochastic backpropagation, a novel maximum a posteriori detection method for coherent optical communications. The proposed detector is shown to outperform conventional backpropagation in a scenario where nonlinear phase noise is the dominant impairment.
Keywords :
maximum likelihood detection; maximum likelihood estimation; nonlinear optics; optical communication; phase noise; stochastic processes; coherent optical communications; maximum a posteriori detection; nonlinear phase noise; optical detector; stochastic backpropagation; Backpropagation; Detectors; Dispersion; Optical fiber communication; Phase noise; Stochastic processes;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2011 37th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
Geneva
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1918-9
