Title : 
Application of nonlinear MLSE based on Volterra theory in NZ-DSF optical communication systems
         
        
            Author : 
Xianming Zhu ; Kumar, Shiva ; Raghavan, Srikanth ; Mauro, Yihong
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McMaster Univ., Hamilton, ON
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We show that a nonlinear adaptive MLSE receiver based on Volterra theory with 4-bit ADC and 3-fold oversampling can result in a reach of 960 km over 10 Gb/s NZ-DSF fiber-optic communication systems.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Volterra equations; analogue-digital conversion; maximum likelihood sequence estimation; nonlinear estimation; nonlinear optics; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical receivers; ADC; NZ-DSF fiber-optic communication systems; Volterra theory; analog-to-digital converter; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; distance 960 km; maximum likelihood sequence estimation; nonlinear adaptive MLSE receiver; nonzero dispersion-shifted fiber; Fiber nonlinear optics; Maximum likelihood estimation; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber theory; Optical filters; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Optical transmitters; Viterbi algorithm; (060.2330) Fiber optics communications; (060.4370) Nonlinear optics, fibers;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
San Jose, CA
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-55752-859-9