• DocumentCode
    851601
  • Title

    Experimental Demonstration of Fiber Impairment Compensation Using the Split-Step Finite-Impulse-Response Filtering Method

  • Author

    Goldfarb, Gilad ; Taylor, Michael G. ; Li, Guifang

  • Author_Institution
    Coll. of Opt. & Photonics, Univ. of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
  • Volume
    20
  • Issue
    22
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    1887
  • Lastpage
    1889
  • Abstract
    Digital distributed impairment postcompensation for dispersion and nonlinear effects using backward propagation is demonstrated in a wavelength-division-multiplexing environment for the first time. The experimental results clearly show the benefit of employing distributed postcompensation, compared to dispersion compensation only or lumped dispersion and nonlinearity compensation.
  • Keywords
    FIR filters; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical information processing; wavelength division multiplexing; DSP; WDM; backward propagation; digital distributed impairment postcompensation; digital signal processing; fiber impairment compensation; nonlinear effects; optical fiber communication; split-step finite-impulse-response filtering method; wavelength-division-multiplexing; Coherent detection; digital signal processing (DSP); optical fiber communication; wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM);
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1041-1135
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LPT.2008.2005003
  • Filename
    4610953