Title :
100G upgrade over legacy submarine dispersion-managed fiber link using fiber nonlinearity compensation and maximum likelihood sequence estimation
Author :
Zhang, Shaoliang ; Mateo, Eduardo ; Xu, Lei ; Huang, Ming-Fang ; Yaman, Fatih ; Shao, Yin ; Wang, Ting ; Inada, Yoshihisa ; Inoue, Takanori ; Ogata, Takaaki ; Aoki, Yasuhiro
Author_Institution :
NEC Labs. America, Inc., Princeton, NJ, USA
Abstract :
The maximum transmission reach of 127 Gb/s DP-QPSK over legacy DMF link is extended to 4,800 km with 7.4 dB Q-factor using hybrid nonlinearity compensation and maximum likelihood sequence estimation, amounting to ~37% distance increase.
Keywords :
maximum likelihood estimation; nonlinear optics; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; quadrature phase shift keying; submarine cables; DP-QPSK; bit rate 127 Gbit/s; distance 4800 km; fiber nonlinearity compensation; hybrid nonlinearity compensation; legacy submarine dispersion managed fiber link; maximum likelihood sequence estimation; Decoding; Maximum likelihood estimation; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Q factor; Receivers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2012 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0262-3
