Reducing the complexity of perturbation based nonlinearity pre-compensation using symmetric EDC and pulse shaping

Ying Gao; John C Cartledge; Abdullah S Karar; Scott S-H Yam; Maurice O'Sullivan; Charles Laperle; Andrzej Borowiec; Kim Roberts

doi:10.1364/OE.22.001209

Reducing the complexity of perturbation based nonlinearity pre-compensation using symmetric EDC and pulse shaping

Opt Express. 2014 Jan 27;22(2):1209-19. doi: 10.1364/OE.22.001209.

Authors

Ying Gao, John C Cartledge, Abdullah S Karar, Scott S-H Yam, Maurice O'Sullivan, Charles Laperle, Andrzej Borowiec, Kim Roberts

PMID: 24515126
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.001209

Abstract

Perturbation based nonlinearity pre-compensation has been performed for a 128 Gbit/s single-carrier dual-polarization 16-ary quadrature-amplitude-modulation (DP 16-QAM) signal. Without any performance degradation, a complexity reduction factor of 6.8 has been demonstrated for a transmission distance of 3600 km by combining symmetric electronic dispersion compensation and root-raised-cosine pulse shaping with a roll-off factor of 0.1. Transmission over 4200 km of standard single-mode fiber with EDFA amplification was achieved for the 128 Gbit/s DP 16-QAM signals with a forward error correction (FEC) threshold of 2 × 10(-2).