Title :
Nonlinearity mitigation through optical phase conjugation in a deployed fibre link with full bandwidth utilization
Author :
S. Yoshima;Y. Sun;K. R. H. Bottrill;F. Parmigiani;P. Petropoulos;D. J. Richardson
Author_Institution :
Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
Abstract :
We present a trial of nonlinear impairment mitigation of 16-QAM WDM signals through mid-link optical phase conjugation in transmission over an installed fibre link. Signal bandwidth is efficiently reused, avoiding the typical loss of half the spectral band during phase-conjugation.
Keywords :
"Optical fibers","Q-factor","Wavelength division multiplexing","Optical sensors","Fiber nonlinear optics"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341992
