• 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