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Mitigation of nonlinear effects on WDM QAM signals enabled by optical phase conjugation with efficient bandwidth utilization

Mitigation of nonlinear effects on WDM QAM signals enabled by optical phase conjugation with efficient bandwidth utilization
Mitigation of nonlinear effects on WDM QAM signals enabled by optical phase conjugation with efficient bandwidth utilization
We present nonlinear impairment mitigation of wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) signals, through optical phase conjugation (OPC). We conduct our experiments on a 400-km long installed fiber link equipped with erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs), with the OPC placed close to the middle of the link. Our OPC configuration realizes efficient reuse of the signal bandwidth, avoiding the loss of half of the spectral band typical of most phase conjugating schemes. We demonstrate the operation of the system using both 16- and 64- quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) signals and report Q-factor improvements up to 0.5 and 2.5 dB for 16- and 64-QAM, respectively.
0733-8724
971-978
Yoshima, Satoshi
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Sun, Yujia
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Parmigiani, Francesca
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Yoshima, Satoshi, Sun, Yujia, Liu, Zhixin, Bottrill, Kyle, Parmigiani, Francesca, Richardson, David and Petropoulos, Periklis (2017) Mitigation of nonlinear effects on WDM QAM signals enabled by optical phase conjugation with efficient bandwidth utilization. Journal of Lightwave Technology, 35 (4), 971-978. (doi:10.1109/JLT.2016.2623740).

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We present nonlinear impairment mitigation of wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) signals, through optical phase conjugation (OPC). We conduct our experiments on a 400-km long installed fiber link equipped with erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs), with the OPC placed close to the middle of the link. Our OPC configuration realizes efficient reuse of the signal bandwidth, avoiding the loss of half of the spectral band typical of most phase conjugating schemes. We demonstrate the operation of the system using both 16- and 64- quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) signals and report Q-factor improvements up to 0.5 and 2.5 dB for 16- and 64-QAM, respectively.

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Accepted/In Press date: 19 October 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 1 November 2016
Published date: 15 February 2017
Organisations: Optoelectronics Research Centre

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Local EPrints ID: 402820
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/402820
ISSN: 0733-8724
PURE UUID: 60af0904-05aa-43b2-8900-5b25955cfcd4
ORCID for Yujia Sun: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-3783-6990
ORCID for Kyle Bottrill: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9872-110X
ORCID for Francesca Parmigiani: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-7784-2829
ORCID for David Richardson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7751-1058
ORCID for Periklis Petropoulos: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-1576-8034

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Date deposited: 21 Nov 2016 11:04
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 02:58

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Author: Satoshi Yoshima
Author: Yujia Sun ORCID iD
Author: Zhixin Liu
Author: Kyle Bottrill ORCID iD
Author: Francesca Parmigiani ORCID iD

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