Title :
Laser frequency drift compensation with Han-Kobayashi coding in superchannel nonlinear optical communications
Author :
Toshiaki Koike-Akino;David S. Millar;Keisuke Kojima;Kieran Parsons
Author_Institution :
Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs., 201 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Abstract :
We investigate the impact of laser frequency drift, which can cause inter-channel interference (ICI) in superchannel communications. We show that Han-Kobayashi coding significantly improves robustness against the drift, achieving 2-times higher achievable rate than conventional coding.
Keywords :
"Encoding","Channel spacing","Optical fiber communication","Standards","Optical fiber amplifiers","Robustness","Optical fiber dispersion"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341865
