DocumentCode
1299780
Title
Joint Fiber and SOA Impairment Compensation Using Digital Backward Propagation
Author
Li, Xiaoxu ; Li, Guifang
Author_Institution
Coll. of Opt. & Photonics, Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
Volume
2
Issue
5
fYear
2010
Firstpage
753
Lastpage
758
Abstract
An electronic scheme for joint postcompensation of fiber and semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) impairments based on coherent detection and digital backward propagation is proposed and demonstrated. A 10-GBd amplitude-phase-modulated transmission system was demonstrated experimentally using semiconductor optical amplification. The Q-factor of the received signal was improved by 5 dB with simultaneous fiber and SOA impairment compensation in the electrical domain.
Keywords
amplitude shift keying; light coherence; semiconductor optical amplifiers; Q-factor; SOA impairment compensation; amplitude-phase-modulated transmission system; coherent detection; digital backward propagation; joint fiber; semiconductor optical amplifier; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical saturation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Amplitude-phase-shift keying; impairment compensation; semiconductor optical amplifiers;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Photonics Journal, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1943-0655
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/JPHOT.2010.2068042
Filename
5551168
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