Design of a wavelength control for coherent detection of high order modulation formats

An automatic frequency control design is proposed and demonstrated. It is based on a high-speed optical VCO. An overall design has been performed, based on simulation results. Also, loop delay and phase noise impacts have been evaluated. Frequency discriminator and VCO proposed have been experimentally characterized, showing an agreement with simulation results.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version

Performance analysis of 20Gb/s RZ-DPSK non-slope matched transoceanic submarine links

Direct computation of the bit-error rate (BER) and laboratory experiments are used to assess the performance of a non-slope matched transoceanic submarine transmission link operating at 20Gb/s channel rate and employing return-to-zero differential-phase shift keying (RZ-DPSK) signal modulation. Using this system as an example, we compare the accuracies of the existing theoretical approaches to the BER estimation for the RZ-DPSK format. © 2007 Optical Society of America

Kerr nonlinearity mitigation in 5 × 28-GBd PDM 16-QAM signal transmission over a dispersion-uncompensated link with backward-pumped distributed Raman amplification

International audienceWe present experimental and numerical investigations of Kerr nonlinearity compensation in a 400-km standard single-mode fiber link with distributed Raman amplification with backward pumping. A dual-pump polarization-independent fiber-based optical parametric amplifier is used for mid-link spectral inversion of 5 × 28-GBd polarization-multiplexed 16-QAM signals. Signal quality factor (Q-factor) improvements of 1.1 dB and 0.8 dB were obtained in the cases of a single-channel and a five-channel wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) system, respectively. The experimental results are compared to numerical simulations with good agreement. It is also shown with simulations that a maximum transmission reach of 2400 km enabled by the optical phase conjugator is possible for the WDM signal

Polarization multiplexed 16QAM transmission employing modified digital back-propagation

We experimentally demonstrate performance enhancements enabled by weighted digital back propagation method for 28 Gbaud PM-16QAM transmission systems, over a 250 km ultra-large area fibre, using only one back-propagation step for the entire link, enabling up to 3 dB improvement in power tolerance with respect to linear compensation only. We observe that this is roughly the same improvement that can be obtained with the conventional, computationally heavy, non-weighted digital back propagation compensation with one step per span. As a further benchmark, we analyze performance improvement as a function of number of steps, and show that the performance improvement saturates at approximately 20 steps per span, at which a 5 dB improvement in power tolerance is obtained with respect to linear compensation only. Furthermore, we show that coarse-step self-phase modulation compensation is inefficient in wavelength division multiplexed transmission

Next Generation Optical Networks Based on Higher-Order Modulation Formats, Coherent Receivers and Electronic Distortion Equalization, Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik:

ABSTRACT Worldwide, higher-order modulation formats are intensively investigated to further increase spectral efficiency for building next generation optical transport networks. Coherent receivers and digital electronic equalizers are hereby discussed as the key enablers for applying very high spectral efficient wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) signals in future optical core and metro networks. We review current research on application of higher-order modulation formats with coherent detection and electronic distortion equalization

Design of a wavelength control for coherent detection of high order modulation formats

An automatic frequency control design is proposed and demonstrated. It is based on a high-speed optical VCO. An overall design has been performed, based on simulation results. Also, loop delay and phase noise impacts have been evaluated. Frequency discriminator and VCO proposed have been experimentally characterized, showing an agreement with simulation results.Peer Reviewe

Transmission of Single-Channel 16-QAM Data Signals at Terabaud Symbol Rates

We present latest results for OTDM transmission systems in combination with digital coherent detection achieving record-high serial data rates in a single-wavelength channel. We show serial data transmission of 5.1 Tb/s (640 GBd) over 80-km and 10.2 Tb/s (1.28 TBd) over 29-km dispersion managed fiber (DMF). For 5.1-Tb/s transmission over 80-km DMF, the BER of all 128 OTDM-tributaries (both polarizations) is found to be below the hard-decision FEC-threshold, corresponding to an error-free net data rate of 4.8 Tb/s. In a 10.2-Tb/s experiment, the BER of all 256 TDM-tributaries (both polarizations) is found to be below the FEC-threshold in the back-to-back configuration. This translates to an error-free net data rate of 9.5 Tb/s. After transmission over a 29-km DMF negligible pulse broadening and a BER below the FEC limit is found

Nonlinear digital pre-distortion of transmitter components

We present a linear and nonlinear digital predistortion (DPD) tailored to the components of an optical transmitter. The DPD concept uses nonlinear models of the transmitter devices, which are obtained from direct component measurements. While the digital-to-analog converter and driver amplifier are modeled jointly by a Volterra series, the modulator is modeled independently as a Wiener system. This allows for block-wise compensation of the modulator by a Hammerstein system and a pre-distortion of the electrical components by a second Volterra series. In simulations and extensive experiments, the performance of our approach for nonlinear DPD is compared to an equivalent linear solution as well as to a configuration without any digital pre-distortion. The experiments were performed using M-ary quadrature-amplitude modulation (MQAM) formats ranging from 16-QAM to 128-QAM at a symbol rate of 32 GBd. It is shown that DPD improves the required optical signal-to-noise ratio at a bit error ratio of 2???10-2 by at least 1.2 dB. Nonlinear DPD outperforms linear DPD by an additional 0.9 dB and 2.7 dB for higher-order modulation formats such as 64-QAM and 128-QAM, respectively

Polarization multiplexed 224 Gb/s 16QAM transmission employing digital back-propagation

Abstract: We experimentally demonstrate the performance of back-propagation algorithm in coherently-detected 224Gb/s PM-16QAM system, over 250km of uncompensated link, and report 3.5 dB improvement in power tolerance with one back-propagation step for the entire link