• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 10, Issue 11, 110602 (2012)
Mingliang Deng, Xingwen Yi, Jing Zhang, Hongbo Zhang, and Kun Qiu
DOI: 10.3788/col201210.110602 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
Mingliang Deng, Xingwen Yi, Jing Zhang, Hongbo Zhang, Kun Qiu. Fiber nonlinearity compensation for CO-OFDM transmission with 10.7-Gb/s NRZ-OOK neighbors[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2012, 10(11): 110602 Copy Citation Text show less

Abstract

Fiber nonlinearity limits the use of coherent optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (CO-OFDM) to upgrade wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) systems using legacy non-return-to-zero-on-off-keying (NRZ-OOK) channels. This letter proposes to compensate for the fiber nonlinearity of CO-OFDM with NRZ-OOK neighbors by combining digital signal processing (DSP)-based self-phase modulation (SPM) post-compensation with pilot-tone-based cross-phase modulation (XPM) compensation. The simulation results demonstrate that the optimum low-pass filter bandwidth for pilot-tone-based XPM compensation depends on the pilot-to-signal ratio value and launch optical power. Our method allows a 4-dB increase in the launch power for a 40-Gb/s single polarization CO-OFDM channel placed in the middle of six 10.7-Gb/s NRZ channels in a 50-GHz space and 1 200-km WDM system.
Mingliang Deng, Xingwen Yi, Jing Zhang, Hongbo Zhang, Kun Qiu. Fiber nonlinearity compensation for CO-OFDM transmission with 10.7-Gb/s NRZ-OOK neighbors[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2012, 10(11): 110602
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