Title :
Training-aided PDM 64-QAM transmission with enhanced fiber nonlinearity tolerance
Author :
Zhu, C. ; Du, Liang B. ; Tran, A.V. ; Lowery, Arthur J. ; Skafidas, E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., NICTA Ltd., Victoria Res. Lab., Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Abstract :
We show that fiber nonlinearity compensation of just the training sequence improves the nonlinearity-limited performance of training-aided m-QAM systems. Experimental results demonstrate transmission performance improvement by 0.4 dB for a 120-Gb/s 64-QAM 800-km system.
Keywords :
light transmission; multiplexing; optical fibre polarisation; quadrature amplitude modulation; bit rate 120 Gbit/s; polarization division multiplexing; quadrature amplitude modulation; training sequence fiber nonlinearity tolerance compensation; training-aided PDM m-QAM system transmission; Blind equalizers; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical polarization; Optical transmitters; Quadrature amplitude modulation; Training;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2014
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-5575-2994-7
DOI :
10.1364/OFC.2014.M2A.7
