Performance of coherent optical fiber transmission systems

doi:10.1007/s12200-018-0811-3

Front. Optoelectron.

2018, Vol. 11

Issue (2) : 128-133 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12200-018-0811-3

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Performance of coherent optical fiber transmission systems

John C. CARTLEDGE(

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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada

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Abstract

A brief overview of recent experimental research on coherent optical fiber transmission systems at Queen’s University is presented. Exemplary results are described that exploit real-time signal processing to assess the impact of cascaded optical filtering.

Keywords coherent optical fiber transmission cascaded optical filtering

Corresponding Author(s): John C. CARTLEDGE

Just Accepted Date: 01 June 2018 Online First Date: 03 July 2018 Issue Date: 04 July 2018

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John C. CARTLEDGE. Performance of coherent optical fiber transmission systems[J]. Front. Optoelectron., 2018, 11(2): 128-133.

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Fig.1 Dependence of estimated 8D AIR on launch power for PB-PS-QPSK and PS-QPSK for 41 channel nonlinear transmission over a 10000 km dispersion managed link at 35 Gbaud. © 2018 IEEE. Reprinted, with permission, from IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology

Fig.2 Dependence of the BER on launch power for a 1.206 Tb/s superchannel signal and transmission over 1500 km of singlemode fiber with a NLPD, MAP detector, VNLE and sparse-VNLE. © 2016 IEEE. Reprinted, with permission, from IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Fig.3 Normalized measured spectra for a 224 Gb/s DP 16-QAM signal, X-polarization component. Resolution bandwidth of 300 kHz, video bandwidth of 300 kHz. © 2016 IEEE. Reprinted, with permission, from IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Fig.4 Experimental setup. EDFA: erbium doped fiber amplifier; OBPF: optical bandpass filter; VOA: variable optical attenuator; BBNS: broadband noise source. © 2017 IEEE. Reprinted, with permission, from IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology

Fig.5 Measured response for one of the 1000 cascaded filter responses, BW = 38 GHz. Inset shows the spectrum of the 35 Gbaud DP-QPSK signal. © 2017 IEEE. Reprinted, with permission, from IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology

Fig.7 Dependence of the required OSNR on the overall bandwidth of the filter cascade for three values of Prob(SNRmin< 3.52). © 2017 IEEE. Reprinted, with permission, from IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology

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