Title :
All-optical compensation of fiber nonlinearity by an end-span module based on phase conjugation
Author :
Pelusi, Mark D. ; Eggleton, Benjamin J.
Author_Institution :
Centre for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Opt. Syst. (CUDOS), Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Abstract :
We demonstrate compensation of optical fiber nonlinearity by a novel end-span scheme. Operation on a 40 Gbit/sec RZ-DPSK signal before transmission in 191 km fiber pre-compensates self phase modulation to improve the BER power penalty by >;3.5 dB.
Keywords :
compensation; differential phase shift keying; error statistics; optical phase conjugation; self-phase modulation; BER power penalty; RZ-DPSK signal; all-optical compensation; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; distance 191 km; end-span module; fiber pre-compensates; optical fiber nonlinearity; phase conjugation; self phase modulation; transmission; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Optical fibers; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2011 16th
Conference_Location :
Kaohsiung
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-288-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-986-02-8974-9
