Implication of Parameter Values on Low-Pass Filter Assisted Digital Back Propagation for DP 16-QAM

Author

Ying Gao ; Jian Hong Ke ; Cartledge, J.C. ; Kang Ping Zhong ; Yam, S.S.-H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Queen´s Univ., Kingston, ON, Canada

Volume

25

Issue

10

fYear

2013

fDate

15-May-13

Firstpage

917

Lastpage

920

Abstract

The low-pass filter (LPF) assisted digital back propagation (DBP) algorithm is investigated for 112 Gb/s dual-polarization 16-ary quadrature-amplitude-modulation transmission up to 2400 km. The performance implications of the parameter values for the LPF-DBP algorithm are considered in detail through determining the dependence of the bit error ratio (BER) on the number of nonlinear compensation (NLC) steps per span for optimum parameter values and the sensitivity of the BER to nonoptimum parameter values. The sensitivity to nonoptimum values is investigated as well for different transmission lengths and launch powers. It is shown that the optimum parameter values depend on the NLC step size, but that for a given step size representative values can be used for a range of transmission lengths and channel launch powers.

Keywords

backpropagation; error statistics; low-pass filters; quadrature amplitude modulation; 16-ary quadrature-amplitude-modulation transmission; BER; DP 16-QAM; bit error ratio; bit rate 112 Gbit/s; digital back propagation; distance 2400 km; low-pass filter; nonlinear compensation; nonoptimum parameter values; Coherent optical fiber transmission; digital back propagation; dual-polarization quadrature-amplitude-modulation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2013.2255124

Filename

6490010