• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 1, Issue 3, 130 (2013)
Rameez Asif*, Humayun Shahid, Farzana Arshad, and and Rashid Saleem
Author Affiliations
  • Telecommunication Engineering Department (TED), University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Taxila 47050, Pakistan
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.1.000130 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Rameez Asif, Humayun Shahid, Farzana Arshad, and Rashid Saleem, "Scalable nonlinear equalization in high-bit-rate optical transmission systems," Photonics Res. 1, 130 (2013) Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    In this paper, we report on the performance comparison of all-optical signal processing methodologies to compensate fiber transmission impairments, namely chromatic dispersion and nonlinear distortion caused by the Kerr effect, in a coherent 112 Gbit∕s dual-polarization 64 bit quadrature amplitude modulation system over 800 km standard single-mode fiber. We numerically compare optical backward propagation (OBP) with optical phase conjugation (OPC) techniques, namely. mid-link spectral inversion, predispersed spectral inversion, and OPC with nonlinearity module. We also evaluate a self-phase-modulation-based optical limiter with an appropriate prechirping to compensate for the intensity fluctuations as a hybrid approach with OBP. The results depict improvement in system performance by a factor of ~4 dB of signal input power by all-optical signal processing methods, which is comparative with ideal digital backward propagation where the high complexity is the intrinsic impediment in the real-time implementation of the technique with coherent receivers.
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    P(r,t)=PL(r,t)+PNL(r,t),(3)

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    N^=jγ|E|2;D^=(jβ222t2α2).(9)

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    Rameez Asif, Humayun Shahid, Farzana Arshad, and Rashid Saleem, "Scalable nonlinear equalization in high-bit-rate optical transmission systems," Photonics Res. 1, 130 (2013)
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