Title :
Experimental demonstration of fiber nonlinearity mitigation using digital phase conjugation
Author :
Xi Chen ; Xiang Liu ; Chandrasekhar, S. ; Zhu, Benpeng ; Tkach, R.W.
Author_Institution :
Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate fiber nonlinearity mitigation using mid-link digital phase conjugation in 40-Gb/s CO-OFDM-16QAM transmission over 100-km ultra-large-area-fiber spans, achieving a reach of 10,400 km, and reach and power-tolerance improvements of 53% and 4 dB, respectively.
Keywords :
OFDM modulation; optical fibre communication; quadrature amplitude modulation; CO-OFDM-16QAM transmission; bit rate 40 Gbit/s; distance 100 km; distance 10400 km; fiber nonlinearity mitigation; mid-link digital phase conjugation; quadrature amplitude modulation; ultra-large-area-fiber spans; Digital signal processing; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Optical polarization; Optical signal processing; Optical transmitters;
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
