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Published on: March 20, 2017
Compensation of intra-channel nonlinear fibre impairments using simplified digital back-propagation algorithm
Danish Rafique1, Marco Mussolin, Marco Forzati
1Photonics Systems Group, Tyndall National Institute and Department of Electrical Engineering/Physics, University College Cork, Dyke Parade, Prospect Row, Cork, Ireland. danish.rafique@tyndall.ie
Abstract:
We investigate a digital back-propagation simplification method to enable computationally-efficient digital nonlinearity compensation for a coherently-detected 112 Gb/s polarization multiplexed quadrature phase shifted keying transmission over a 1,600 km link (20 x 80 km) with no inline compensation. Through numerical simulation, we report up to 80% reduction in required back-propagation steps to perform nonlinear compensation, in comparison to the standard back-propagation algorithm. This method takes into account the correlation between adjacent symbols at a given instant using a weighted-average approach, and optimization of the position of nonlinear compensator stage to enable practical digital back-propagation.
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