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Perturbation-based FEC-assisted Iterative Nonlinearity Compensation for WDM Systems

Signal Processing 2019-02-27 v1

Abstract

A perturbation-based nonlinear compensation scheme assisted by a feedback from the forward error correction (FEC) decoder is numerically and experimentally investigated. It is shown by numerical simulations and transmission experiments that a feedback from the FEC decoder enables improved compensation performance, allowing the receiver to operate very close to the full data-aided performance bounds. The experimental analysis considers the dispersion uncompensated transmission of a 5 x 32 GBd WDM system with DP-16QAM and DP-64QAM after 4200 km and 1120 km, respectively. The experimental results show that the proposed scheme outperforms single-channel digital backpropagation. A perturbation-based nonlinear compensation scheme assisted by a feedback from the forward error correction (FEC) decoder is numerically and experimentally investigated. It is shown by numerical simulations and transmission experiments that a feedback from the FEC decoder enables improved compensation performance, allowing the receiver to operate very close to the full data-aided performance bounds. The experimental analysis considers the dispersion uncompensated transmission of a 5 x 32 GBd WDM system with DP-16QAM and DP-64QAM after 4200 km and 1120 km, respectively. The experimental results show that the proposed scheme outperforms single-channel digital backpropagation.

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@article{arxiv.1810.02184,
  title  = {Perturbation-based FEC-assisted Iterative Nonlinearity Compensation for WDM Systems},
  author = {Edson P. da Silva and Metodi P. Yankov and Francesco Da Ros and Toshio Morioka and Leif K. Oxenløwe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.02184},
  year   = {2019}
}
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