Title :
Impact of dispersion map management on the performance of back-propagation for nonlinear WDM transmissions
Author :
Rafique, Danish ; Zhao, Jian ; Ellis, Andrew D.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng./Phys., Univ. Coll. Cork, Cork, Ireland
Abstract :
We investigate the dependence of digital back-propagation on dispersion map and the number of back-propagated channels for a 112Gb/s/channel PM-mQAM (m=4,16) WDM link. With the optimum dispersion map, single-channel back-propagation approaches the maximum spectral efficiency.
Keywords :
backpropagation; channel capacity; dispersive channels; light transmission; numerical analysis; wavelength division multiplexing; back-propagation; dispersion map management; nonlinear WDM transmissions; Coherence; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Optical losses; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
OptoElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2010 15th
Conference_Location :
Sapporo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6785-3
