Title :
Carrier phase recovery aided by mid-span spectral inversion in an N-WDM system
Author :
Morshed, Monir ; Corcoran, B. ; Du, Liang B. ; Foo, Benjamin ; Chen Zhu ; Lowery, Arthur J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Syst. Eng., Monash Univ., Clayton, VIC, Australia
Abstract :
We experimentally demonstrate mid-span spectral inversion (MSSI) of a Nyquist wavelength-division multiplexing (N-WDM) 526-Gb/s 16-QAM superchannel over an 800-km link. MSSI improves the robustness of blind carrier phase recovery in the nonlinearity-limited region.
Keywords :
Nyquist criterion; optical fibre communication; optical modulation; quadrature amplitude modulation; recovery; wavelength division multiplexing; 16-QAM superchannel; MSSI; N-WDM system; Nyquist wavelength-division multiplexing; bit rate 526 Gbit/s; blind carrier phase recovery; carrier phase recovery; distance 800 km; midspan spectral inversion; Bit error rate; Couplers; Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber couplers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fibre Technology, 2014 OptoElectronics and Communication Conference and Australian Conference on
Conference_Location :
Melbourne, VIC
