Title :
Mitigating intra-channel nonlinearity in coherent optical communications using ISI-free polynomial pulses
Author :
Karar, A.S. ; Gao, Yuan ; Cartledge, J.C. ; Gazor, S. ; O´Sullivan, M. ; Laperle, C. ; Borowiec, A. ; Roberts, K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Math. & Stat., Queen´s Univ., Kingston, ON, Canada
Abstract :
ISI-free polynomial pulses are considered for mitigating intra-channel nonlinearity for a 128 Gb/s DP 16-QAM system. A maximum transmission distance of 4500 km is achieved offering a 25% reach extension relative to root-raised-cosine pulses.
Keywords :
light transmission; optical communication; optical modulation; polynomials; quadrature amplitude modulation; telecommunication channels; DP 16-QAM system; ISI-free polynomial pulse; bit rate 128 Gbit/s; coherent optical communication; distance 4500 km; intrachannel nonlinearity mitigation; maximum transmission distance; root-raised-cosine pulse; Nonlinear optics; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical pulse shaping; Polynomials; Shape;
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.Tu3A.7
