On nonlinearly-induced noise in single-channel optical links with digital backpropagation
Journal article, 2013

In this paper, we investigate the performance limits of electronic chromatic dispersion compensation (EDC) and digital backpropagation (DBP) for a single-channel non-dispersion-managed fiber-optical link. A known analytical method to derive the performance of the system with EDC is extended to derive a first-order approximation for the performance of the system with DBP. In contrast to the cubic growth of the variance of the nonlinear noise-like interference, often called nonlinear noise, with input power for EDC, a quadratic growth is observed with DBP using this approximation. Finally, we provide numerical results to verify the accuracy of the proposed approach and compare it with existing analytical models.

Fiber optics communications

Coherent communications

Author

Lotfollah Beygi

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Naga Vishnukanth Irukulapati

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Erik Agrell

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Pontus Johannisson

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Photonics

Magnus Karlsson

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Photonics

Henk Wymeersch

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Paolo Serena

University of Parma

Alberto Bononi

University of Parma

Optics Express

1094-4087 (ISSN) 10944087 (eISSN)

Vol. 21 22 26376-26386

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Subject Categories

Telecommunications

Communication Systems

Signal Processing

Infrastructure

C3SE (Chalmers Centre for Computational Science and Engineering)

DOI

10.1364/OE.21.026376

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