Various nonlinearity mitigation techniques employing optical and electronic approaches

Danish Rafique, Andrew D. Ellis

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Abstract

In this letter, we directly compare digital back-propagation (DBP) with spectral inversion (SI) both with and without symmetry correction via dispersive chirping, and numerically demonstrate that predispersed SI outperforms traditional SI, and approaches the performance of computationally exhaustive ideal DBP. Furthermore, we propose for the first time a novel practical scheme employing predispersed SI to compensate the bulk of channel nonlinearities, and DBP to accommodate the residual penalties due to varying SI location, with predispersed SI ubiquitously employed along the transmission link with <;0.5-dB penalty. Our results also show that predispersed SI enables partial compensation of cross-phase modulation effects, increasing the transmission reach by ×2.
Original languageEnglish
Article number6032066
Pages (from-to)1838-1840
Number of pages3
JournalIEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume23
Issue number23
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2011

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Keywords

  • Kerr nonlinearity
  • network design

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