Digital nonlinear compensation for spectrally-sliced optical receivers with MIMO reconstruction

Victor E. S. Parahyba, Stenio M. Ranzini, Andre L. N Souza, Valery N. Rozental, Sandro M. Rossi, Andrea Chiuchiarelli, Juliano R. F. Oliveira, Jacklyn D. Reis

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Abstract

We experimentally investigate, in a 2x56-GBd 400G WDM transmission system, different approaches for nonlinear compensation in spectrally-sliced optical receivers with MIMO-based signal reconstruction. Slice-by-slice nonlinear compensation shows comparable performance to inter-slice nonlinear compensation in a WDM system. In addition, an 8-stages compensation yields a 0.4-dB Q2 gain equivalent to 250-km distance increase, resulting in 2000-km transparent reach.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2589-2592
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume28
Issue number22
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Nov 2016
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Coherent optical communications
  • Digital signal processing
  • Nonlinear compensation
  • Spectrally-sliced receiver

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