• DocumentCode
    161569
  • Title

    Signal power asymmetry tolerance of an optical phase conjugation-based nonlinear compensation system

  • Author

    Solis-Trapala, Karen ; Inoue, Takeru ; Namiki, Shu

  • Author_Institution
    Nat. Inst. of Adv. Ind. Sci. & Technol. (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    21-25 Sept. 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    Nearly perfect nonlinear compensation of 4× 12Gbaud-16QAM WDM signals is experimentally demonstrated to achieve nonlinear threshold improvement greater than 10dB, in which symmetric power evolution is essential. We also numerically investigate Q2-penalty versus power symmetry for varying 4×67.25Gbaud-16QAM WDM transmission distances.
  • Keywords
    compensation; optical modulation; optical phase conjugation; quadrature amplitude modulation; signal processing; wavelength division multiplexing; 16QAM WDM signals; 16QAM WDM transmission distances; Q2-penalty; nonlinear threshold improvement; optical phase conjugation-based nonlinear compensation system; power symmetry; signal power asymmetry tolerance; symmetric power evolution; Dispersion; Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical pumping; Signal to noise ratio; Wavelength division multiplexing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2014 European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Cannes
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2014.6964152
  • Filename
    6964152