Title :
Performance improvement by fibre nonlinearity compensation in 112 Gb/s PM M-ary QAM
Author :
Rafique, Danish ; Zhao, Jian ; Ellis, Andrew D.
Author_Institution :
Photonic Syst. Group, Univ. Coll. Cork, Cork, Ireland
Abstract :
We demonstrate that digital back-propagation offers up to six-fold enhancement in transmission reach when nonlinear fibre impairments are compensated in coherently-detected 112 Gb/s PM m-ary QAM, with greater enhancement for higher order formats.
Keywords :
light coherence; light transmission; multiplexing; nonlinear optics; optical fibre polarisation; quadrature amplitude modulation; PM M-ary QAM; coherently-detected PM m-ary QAM; digital back-propagation; fibre nonlinearity compensation; higher order formats; nonlinear fibre impairments; performance improvement; six-fold enhancement; transmission reach; Modulation; Nonlinear optics; Optical fibers; Optical noise; Optical polarization; Signal to noise ratio;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC/NFOEC), 2011 and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0213-6
