Optical phase conjugation for nonlinearity compensation in WDM PDM 16-QAM transmission over dispersion-compensated and dispersion-uncompensated links

F. Da Ros,Isaac Sackey,Mahmoud Jazayerifar,Thomas Richter,Robert Elschner,Christian Meuer,Markus Nölle,Lutz Molle,Klaus Petermann,Johannes Karl Fischer,Colja Schubert,Christophe Peucheret

Optical phase conjugation for nonlinearity compensation in WDM PDM 16-QAM transmission over dispersion-compensated and dispersion-uncompensated links

2015

F. Da Ros
Isaac Sackey
Mahmoud Jazayerifar
Thomas Richter
Robert Elschner
Christian Meuer
Markus Nölle
Lutz Molle
Klaus Petermann
Johannes Karl Fischer
Colja Schubert
Christophe Peucheret

Kerr nonlinearity compensation by optical phase conjugation is demonstrated in a WDM PDM 16-QAM system. Improved received signal quality is reported for both dispersion-compensated and dispersion-uncompensated transmission and a comparison with digital backpropagation is provided.

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Electronic engineering
Four-wave mixing
Optical communications repeater
Optical modulation amplitude
Optical performance monitoring
Silicon photonics
Cross-phase modulation
Dispersion (optics)
Physics
Phase conjugation
Optics
Optoelectronics
Wavelength-division multiplexing
Quadrature amplitude modulation

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