Title :
Reducing the complexity of nonlinearity pre-compensation using symmetric EDC and pulse shaping
Author :
Gao, Yuan ; Cartledge, J.C. ; Karar, A.S. ; Yam, S.S.-H.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Queen´s Univ., Kingston, ON, Canada
Abstract :
By combining symmetric electronic dispersion compensation and root-raised-cosine pulse shaping with a roll-off factor of 0.1, the complexity of perturbation-based nonlinear pre-compensation for 128 Gbit/s DP 16-QAM is reduced by a factor up to 6.8 without a degradation in performance.
Keywords :
optical dispersion; pulse shaping; quadrature amplitude modulation; 16-QAM; nonlinearity precompensation complexity reduction; perturbation-based nonlinear precompensation; root-raised-cosine pulse shaping; symmetric electronic dispersion compensation;
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.2013.1692
