Polarization multiplexed 16QAM transmission employing modified digital back-propagation

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate performance enhancements enabled by weighted digital back propagation method for 28 Gbaud PM-16QAM transmission systems, over a 250 km ultra-large area fibre, using only one back-propagation step for the entire link, enabling up to 3 dB improvement in power tolerance with respect to linear compensation only. We observe that this is roughly the same improvement that can be obtained with the conventional, computationally heavy, non-weighted digital back propagation compensation with one step per span. As a further benchmark, we analyze performance improvement as a function of number of steps, and show that the performance improvement saturates at approximately 20 steps per span, at which a 5 dB improvement in power tolerance is obtained with respect to linear compensation only. Furthermore, we show that coarse-step self-phase modulation compensation is inefficient in wavelength division multiplexed transmission.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.19.00B805
Additional Information: © 2011 OSA This paper was published in Optics Express and is made available as an electronic reprint with the permission of OSA. The paper can be found at the following URL on the OSA website: http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.19.00B805. Systematic or multiple reproduction or distribution to multiple locations via electronic or other means is prohibited and is subject to penalties under law.
Uncontrolled Keywords: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Publication ISSN: 1094-4087
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Published Date: 2011-12-12
Authors: Rafique, Danish
Mussolin, Marco
Mårtensson, Jonas
Forzati, Marco
Fischer, Johannes K.
Molle, Lutz
Nölle, Markus
Schubert, Colja
Ellis, Andrew D. (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-0417-0547)

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