Title :
Demonstration of the mitigation of intra-channel nonlinearities based on inter-polarization digital frequency offsetting with 50Gb/s PM-QPSK signal over 10,080km transmission
Author :
Fujisawa, Shinsuke ; Nakano, T. ; Ogasahara, Daisaku ; Le Taillandier de Gabory, Emmanuel ; Inada, Yoshihisa ; Ito, Takao ; Fukuchi, Kiyoshi
Author_Institution :
Green Platform Res. Labs., NEC Corp., Kawasaki, Japan
Abstract :
We propose a new method to mitigate intra-channel nonlinear impairments based on digital frequency offsetting between polarizations. We experimentally demonstrate the improvement of the maximal Q-factor by 0.8 dB for 50Gb/s PM-iRZ-QPSK signal over a 10,080km PSCF transmission line with the impact of bandwidth-narrowing by 25GHz filtering.
Keywords :
Q-factor; optical fibre communication; optical fibre polarisation; optical modulation; quadrature phase shift keying; silicon compounds; telecommunication channels; PM-QPSK signal; PM-iRZ-QPSK signal; PSCF transmission line; Q-factor; SiO2; bandwidth-narrowing; bit rate 50 Gbit/s; distance 10080 km; filtering; interpolarization digital frequency offsetting; intrachannel nonlinearities mitigation; pure silica core fiber; Digital signal processing; Frequency division multiplexing; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical polarization; Optical transmitters; Q-factor;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications (ECOC), 2012 38th European Conference and Exhibition on