DocumentCode
2752821
Title
Comparitive analysis on the mitigation of intra channel nonlinearities in WDM mesh networks
Author
Rafique, Danish ; Ellis, Andrew D.
Author_Institution
Dept. of EE, Univ. Coll. Cork, Cork, Ireland
fYear
2011
fDate
9-13 Oct. 2011
Firstpage
827
Lastpage
828
Abstract
We compare various nonlinearity mitigation techniques and demonstrate that spectral-inversion significantly outperforms low-precision digital back-propagation, and enables Qeff improvements up to 3.5dB. We further report that pre-chirped spectral-inversion approaches the performance of ideal digital back-propagation.
Keywords
backpropagation; wavelength division multiplexing; WDM mesh networks; comparitive analysis; intra channel nonlinearities; low precision digital backpropagation; nonlinearity mitigation techniques; prechirped spectral inversion; Dispersion; Modulation; Nonlinear optics; Optical fibers; Optical polarization; Silicon; Wavelength division multiplexing;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Photonics Conference (PHO), 2011 IEEE
Conference_Location
Arlington, VA
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-8940-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/PHO.2011.6110813
Filename
6110813
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