Digital back-propagation for spectrally efficient WDM 112 Gbit/s PM m-ary QAM transmission

Danish Rafique, Jian A. Zhao, Andrew D. Ellis

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    Abstract

    We report the performance of coherently-detected nine-channel WDM transmission over high dispersion fibers, using polarization multiplexed m-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (m = 4, 16, 64, 256) at 112 Gbit/s. Compensation of fiber nonlinearities via digital back-propagation enables up to 10 dB improvement in maximum transmittable power and similar to 8 dB Q(eff) improvement which translates to a nine-fold enhancement in transmission reach for PM-256QAM, where the largest improvements are associated with higher-order modulation formats. We further demonstrate that even under strong nonlinear distortion the transmission reach only reduces by a factor of similar to 2.5 for a 2 unit increase in capacity (log(2)m) when full band DBP is employed, in proportion to the required back-to-back OSNR.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)5219-5224
    Number of pages6
    JournalOptics Express
    Volume19
    Issue number6
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 14 Mar 2011

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