Nonlinearity Compensation of 224 Gb/s Dual-Polarization 16-QAM Transmission Over 2700 km

Author

Gao, Ying ; Cartledge, John C. ; Downie, John D. ; Hurley, Jason E. ; Pikula, Dragan ; Yam, Scott S -H

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Queen´´s Univ., Kingston, ON, Canada

Volume

25

Issue

1

fYear

2013

fDate

Jan.1, 2013

Firstpage

14

Lastpage

17

Abstract

Long-haul transmission for distances greater than 2000 km is investigated for a 224 Gb/s dual-polarization 16-ary quadrature-amplitude-modulation signal, using ultralarge effective area fiber with span lengths of 75.5 km and distributed Raman amplification. By using nonlinear compensation (NLC) based on the low-pass filter (LPF) assisted digital back propagation (DBP) algorithm, a transmission distance of 2700 km is demonstrated with moderate complexity (0.25 backpropagation steps/span) and good robustness to deviation of the algorithm parameters from their optimum values. Compared to the standard DBP algorithm, the LPF assisted DBP algorithm can allow a reduction in the number of NLC steps/span, but with an increased computational complexity for each step. The two DBP algorithms are compared in terms of the number of real multiplications per bit, thus allowing the algorithm with lower complexity to be determined for a given level of performance.

Keywords

low-pass filters; optical fibre communication; optical filters; quadrature amplitude modulation; wavelength division multiplexing; bit rate 224 Gbit/s; digital back propagation; distance 2700 km; distributed Raman amplification; dual polarization 16-QAM transmission; long haul transmission; low pass filter; nonlinear compensation; nonlinearity compensation; size 75.5 km; ultralarge effective area fiber; Approximation algorithms; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Nonlinear optics; Optical polarization; Optical receivers; Standards; Coherent optical fiber transmission; dual polarization 16-ary quadrature amplitude modulation;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2012.2227111

Filename

6352837