Low-Complexity One-Step Digital Back-Propagation for Single Span High-Capacity Coherent Transmissions

A low-complexity one-step digital back-propagation (DBP) scheme is proposed to mitigate intrachannel and interchannel fiber nonlinearities in high-capacity single span transmissions. Compared with conventional coherent receivers, the only additional calculation is a low-complexity nonlinear phase no...

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Main Authors: Xingyu Zhou, Qunbi Zhuge, Meng Qiu, Fangyuan Zhang, Mohammed Sowailem, Thang M. Hoang, Meng Xiang, Baojian Wu, Kun Qiu, David V. Plant
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2017-01-01
Series:IEEE Photonics Journal
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7927408/
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Summary:A low-complexity one-step digital back-propagation (DBP) scheme is proposed to mitigate intrachannel and interchannel fiber nonlinearities in high-capacity single span transmissions. Compared with conventional coherent receivers, the only additional calculation is a low-complexity nonlinear phase noise compensation stage operated between bulk chromatic dispersion (CD) compensation and adaptive equalizer. The required number of real additions and multiplications per sample are only (6N &#x002B; 2) and (2N &#x002B; 6), respectively, where <italic>N</italic> is the number of compensated wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) channels. With the proposed one-step DBP, we demonstrate that the nonlinear noise can be suppressed by &#x003E;60&#x0025; in single channel experiments and &#x003E;40&#x0025; in seven-channel WDM simulations.
ISSN:1943-0655