Title :
Improving broad-band mid-span spectral inversion performance for fiber nonlinearity compensation
Author :
Morshed, Monir ; Corcoran, B. ; Lowery, Arthur J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Syst. Eng., Monash Univ., Clayton, VIC, Australia
Abstract :
We investigate design approaches for improving the performance of broad-band mid-span spectral inversion. Simulations show at least 0.7 dB peak Q improvement of a 160-GHz wide 16-QAM OFDM super channel after 800 km transmission.
Keywords :
OFDM modulation; nonlinear optics; optical design techniques; optical fibre communication; optical fibres; quadrature amplitude modulation; telecommunication channels; 16-QAM OFDM super channel; Q improvement; bandwidth 160 GHz; broadband mid-span spectral inversion; design approaches; fiber nonlinearity compensation; optical fibre transmission; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; quadrature amplitude modulation; Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers; Fiber nonlinear optics; OFDM; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
