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Mitigation of Intra-Channel Nonlinear Distortions Based On PAPR Reduction With CD Pre-Compensation in Real-Time 50Gbps PM-QPSK Transmission
Mitigation of Intra-Channel Nonlinear Distortions Based On PAPR Reduction With CD Pre-Compensation in Real-Time 50Gbps PM-QPSK Transmission
Mitigation of Intra-Channel Nonlinear Distortions Based On PAPR Reduction With CD Pre-Compensation in Real-Time 50Gbps PM-QPSK Transmission
of CD accumulates rapidly with transmission distance. As Fig. 2. Correlation between the integral of PAPR and the Q factors
a consequence, rapid changes of optical waveforms Figure 2a shows the integral of PAPR over distance
normalized by the total transmission distance. Figure 2b
This work is partly supported by the National Institute of shows Q factors calculated from Bit Error Ratio (BER).
Information and Communications Technology (NICT), JAPAN.
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2012 17th Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC 2012) Technical Digest
July 2012, Busan, Korea
The span input power was set to 0dBm to work in BER after 660km and 1,310km transmission respectively.
conditions where nonlinear phenomena are major limiting In the case of 660km transmission, the optimal Q factor is
factors. From Fig. 2, we confirm the strong correlation 16.9dB for an optimal span input power set between
between the integral of PAPR and the Q factors. The -2dBm and 0dBm. The improvement of Q factors in the
maximum Q factor is achieved for the case where CD is optimal condition is 0.2dB. In the nonlinear regime above
evenly compensated at the transmitter and the receiver. 2dBm, the degradation caused by intra-channel nonlinear
distortions is reduced when CD is compensated at the
III. E XPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION
transmitter. At span input power of 2dBm, for
We experimentally verified the simulation results with -6,000ps/nm and -10,000ps/nm, the improvements of Q
the setup of Fig. 3. The transmitter generates a 50.7Gbps factors are 1.4dB and 1.0dB respectively. This result
PM-NRZ-QPSK signal with two modulators driven by supports the simulation results that the nonlinear
four differentially encoded PRBS31 patterns at degradations are substantially reduced for conditions
12.67Gbps, including soft decision forward error where the integral of the PAPR over the transmission
correction (SD-FEC) overhead. Optical CD pre- distance is minimal. The improved stability of Q factors
compensation is performed with chirped FBG modules, over high span input power offers wider operation
which do not induce optical nonlinear degradations. The window due to high tolerance for variation of the
transmission line consists of 16 spans of SSMF, which received OSNR among optical channels.
lengths are approximately 80km. The total transmission In the case of 1,310km transmission, CD pre-
distance is 1,310km and the total accumulated CD is compensation improved the Q factor by 0.5dB at -2dBm.
+21,900ps/nm. The receiver consists of an optical In the nonlinear regime, the improvement of Q factors
coherent front end and a real-time DSP circuit, including was 2.2dB at 2dBm for CD pre-compensation of
an FDE-based CD compensation circuit. Following DSP -10,000ps/nm, while the improvement was limited to
steps include polarization demultiplexing and adaptive 1.0dB for CD pre-compensation of -6,000ps/nm. Again,
equalization, carrier phase estimation, symbol decision, this result supports the simulation results
differential decoding and SD-FEC decoding. CD Comp. at TX
䧎/䧊 0ps/nm
SSMF 80km x 16 spans 䦟/䦠 -6,000ps/nm
䦱/䦲 -10,000ps/nm
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