Fiber Nonlinearity Post-Compensation by Optical Phase Conjugation for 40Gb/s CO-OFDM Systems
QIAO Yao-Jun**, LIU Xue-Jun, JI Yue-Feng
Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications (Ministry of Education), Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876
Fiber Nonlinearity Post-Compensation by Optical Phase Conjugation for 40Gb/s CO-OFDM Systems
QIAO Yao-Jun**, LIU Xue-Jun, JI Yue-Feng
Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications (Ministry of Education), Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876
摘要Fiber nonlinearity impairments in a 40-Gb/s coherent optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (CO-OFDM) system are post-compensated for by a new method of fiber nonlinearity post-compensation (FNPC). The FNPC located before the CO-OFDM receiver includes an optical phase conjugation (OPC) unit and a subsequent 80-km-high nonlinear fiber (HNLF) as a fiber nonlinearity compensator. The OPC unit is based on a four wave mixing effect in a semiconductor optical amplifier. The fiber nonlinearity impairments in the transmission link are post-compensated for after OPC by transmission through the HNLF with a large nonlinearity coefficient. Simulation results show that the nonlinear threshold (NLT) (for Q> 10 dB) can be increased by about 2.5 dB and the maximum Q factor is increased by about 1.2 dB for the single−channel 40-Gb/s CO-OFDM system with periodic dispersion maps. In the 50-GHz channel spacing wavelength-division-multiplexing system, the NLT increases by 1.1 dB, equating to a 0.7 dB improvement for the maximum Q factor.
Abstract：Fiber nonlinearity impairments in a 40-Gb/s coherent optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (CO-OFDM) system are post-compensated for by a new method of fiber nonlinearity post-compensation (FNPC). The FNPC located before the CO-OFDM receiver includes an optical phase conjugation (OPC) unit and a subsequent 80-km-high nonlinear fiber (HNLF) as a fiber nonlinearity compensator. The OPC unit is based on a four wave mixing effect in a semiconductor optical amplifier. The fiber nonlinearity impairments in the transmission link are post-compensated for after OPC by transmission through the HNLF with a large nonlinearity coefficient. Simulation results show that the nonlinear threshold (NLT) (for Q> 10 dB) can be increased by about 2.5 dB and the maximum Q factor is increased by about 1.2 dB for the single−channel 40-Gb/s CO-OFDM system with periodic dispersion maps. In the 50-GHz channel spacing wavelength-division-multiplexing system, the NLT increases by 1.1 dB, equating to a 0.7 dB improvement for the maximum Q factor.
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