Fiber Nonlinearity Equalizer Based on Support Vector Classification for Coherent Optical OFDM

Tu Nguyen, Sofien Mhatli, Elias Giacoumidis, Ludo Van Compernolle, Marc Wuilpart, Patrice Megret

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Abstract

A support vector machine (SVM)-based classification nonlinear equalizer (NLE) is demonstrated, for the first time, in coherent optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (CO-OFDM). For a 40-Gb/s 16 quadrature amplitude modulated (16QAM) CO-OFDM system at 400 km of transmission, SVM-NLE reduces the fiber-induced nonlinearity penalty by about 1 dB in comparison to the benchmark artificial-neural-network (ANN)-based and inverse-Volterra-series-transfer-function-based NLEs.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-9
JournalIEEE Photonics Journal
Volume8
Issue number2
Early online date11 Feb 2016
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Apr 2016

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