Title :
Fiber nonlinearity compensation by digital backpropagation of an entire 1.2-Tb/s superchannel using a full-field spectrally-sliced receiver
Author :
Fontaine, Nicolas K. ; Xiang Liu ; Chandrasekhar, S. ; Ryf, R. ; Randel, S. ; Winzer, Peter ; Delbue, R. ; Pupalaikis, P. ; Sureka, A.
Author_Institution :
Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ, USA
Abstract :
We receive the full optical field of a 176-GHz wide, 1.2-Tb/s PDM-16QAM superchannel after 960-km TWRS using a spectrally-sliced coherent receiver. Simultaneous compensation of SPM and XPM with digital backpropagation enables 1 dB of Q-factor improvement.
Keywords :
Q-factor; optical fibre communication; optical receivers; quadrature amplitude modulation; self-phase modulation; PDM-16QAM superchannel; Q-factor improvement; SPM; TWRS; XPM; bandwidth 176 GHz; bit rate 1.2 Tbit/s; cross phase modulation; digital backpropagation; distance 960 km; fiber nonlinearity compensation; full field spectrally sliced receiver; gain 1 dB; self phase modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC 2013), 39th European Conference and Exhibition on
Conference_Location :
London
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-84919-759-5
DOI :
10.1049/cp.2013.1288
