Title :
Experimental validation of digital filter back-propagation to suppress SOA-induced nonlinearities in 16-QAM
Author :
Amiralizadeh, Siamak ; Nguyen, An T. ; Chul Soo Park ; Ghazisaeidi, Amirhossein ; Rusch, Leslie A.
Author_Institution :
ECE Dept., Univ. Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada
Abstract :
We experimentally demonstrate the performance of a computationally efficient digital filter back-propagation scheme for post-compensating SOA nonlinearities in coherent detection of 16-QAM signal at 16 Gbaud, and compare the results with simulations.
Keywords :
quadrature amplitude modulation; semiconductor optical amplifiers; 16 QAM signal; coherent detection; digital filter backpropagation; suppress SOA induced nonlinearity; Bit error rate; Digital signal processing; Gain; Mathematical model; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), 2013
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0457-0
