Volterra-based reconfigurable nonlinear equalizer for coherent OFDM

Elias Giacoumidis, Ivan Aldaya, Mutsam A. Jarajreh, Athanasios Tsokanos, Son T. Le, Farsheed Farjady, Yves Jaouën, Andrew D. Ellis, Nick J. Doran

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Abstract

A reconfigurable nonlinear equalizer (RNLE) based on inverse Volterra series transfer function is proposed for dual-polarization (DP) and multiband coherent optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) signals. It is shown that the RNLE outperforms by 2 dB the linear equalization in a 260-Gb/s DP-OFDM system at 1500 km. The RNLE improves the tolerance to inter/intraband nonlinearities, being independent on polarization tributaries, modulation format, signal bit rate, subcarrier number, and distance.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1383-1386
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume26
Issue number14
Early online date19 Mar 2014
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Jul 2014

Bibliographical note

Funding: European Commission (FP7 ICT Projects DISCUS - Grant 318137 - and FOX-C - Grant 318415); EPSRC (Grant EP/J017582/1-UNLOC); and the Royal Society under Grant WM120035-TEST.

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