Performance of MLSE Receiver in a Dispersion-Managed Multispan Experiment at 10.7 Gb/s Under Nonlinear Transmission

Author

Chandrasekhar, S. ; Gnauck, A.H.

Author_Institution

Lucent Technol. Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ

Volume

18

Issue

23

fYear

2006

Firstpage

2448

Lastpage

2450

Abstract

We report the first comparison of the performance of a maximum likelihood sequence estimation (MLSE) receiver with that of a standard threshold receiver in a dispersion-managed eight-span transmission experiment at 10.7 Gb/s in the presence of fiber nonlinearities. We find a loss of performance advantage of the MLSE receiver for compensating fiber chromatic dispersion under highly nonlinear transmission conditions

Keywords

maximum likelihood sequence estimation; nonlinear optics; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical receivers; 10.7 Gbit/s; MLSE receiver; dispersion compensation; dispersion management; eight-span transmission experiment; fiber chromatic dispersion; fiber nonlinearities; maximum likelihood sequence estimation; nonlinear transmission; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Chromatic dispersion; Distributed feedback devices; Maximum likelihood estimation; Modulation; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Wavelength division multiplexing; Dispersion compensation; maximum likelihood sequence estimation (MLSE); nonlinearities; optical communication; signal processing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.886825

Filename

4012078