Effects of Receiver-Side Optical Filtering on Optical Superchannel System Performance

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Abstract

Optical superchannels provide a route to obtaining the highest achievable data rates in optical fiber systems. Here, we investigate the role of optical filtering on system performance and required optical signal-to-noise ratio, when receiving a single sub-band from an optical superchannel, where the dominant noise source changes from optical to transceiver noise. We find that optical filtering can provide improvement up to 3 dB in signal quality and around 1 b/symbol in information rate, in an experiment where transceiver noise is dominant.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)6097-6106
Number of pages10
JournalJournal of Lightwave Technology
Volume39
Issue number19
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2021

Keywords

  • Coherent optical systems
  • Generalized mutual information
  • Long-haul systems
  • Optical filtering
  • Optical noise
  • Short-haul systems
  • Superchannel systems
  • Transceiver noise

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