Pilot-Aided Joint-Channel Carrier-Phase Estimation in Space-Division Multiplexed Multicore Fiber Transmission
Journal article, 2019

The performance of pilot-aided joint-channel carrier-phase estimation (CPE) in space-division multiplexed multicore fiber (MCF) transmission with correlated phase noise is studied. To that end, a system model describing uncoded MCF transmission where the phase noise comprises a common laser phase noise, in addition to core- and polarization-specific phase drifts, is introduced. It is then shown that the system model can be regarded as a special case of a multidimensional random-walk phase-noise model. A pilot-aided CPE algorithm developed for this model is used to evaluate two strategies, namely joint-channel and per-channel CPE. To quantify the performance differences between the two strategies, their respective phase-noise tolerances are assessed through Monte Carlo simulations of uncoded transmission for different modulation formats, pilot overheads, laser linewidths, numbers of spatial channels, and degrees of phase-noise correlation across the channels. For 20 GBd transmission with 200 kHz combined laser linewidth and 1% pilot overhead, joint-channel CPE yields up to 3.4 dB improvement in power efficiency or 25.5% increased information rate. Moreover, through MCF transmission experiments, the system model is validated and the strategies are compared in terms of bit-error-rate performance versus transmission distance for uncoded transmission of different modulation formats. Up to 21% increase in transmission reach is observed for 1% pilot overhead through the use of joint-channel CPE.

carrier phase estimation

multicore fiber

space-division multiplexing

coherent communications

Author

Arni Alfredsson

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Erik Agrell

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Henk Wymeersch

Chalmers, Electrical Engineering, Communication, Antennas and Optical Networks

Benjamin J. Puttnam

Japan National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

Georg Rademacher

Japan National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

Ruben S. Luís

Japan National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

Magnus Karlsson

Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Photonics

Journal of Lightwave Technology

0733-8724 (ISSN) 1558-2213 (eISSN)

Vol. 37 4 1133-1142 8576586

Technologies for spatial-division multiplexing: The next frontier in optical communications

Swedish Research Council (VR) (2014-6138), 2015-01-01 -- 2018-12-31.

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Subject Categories

Telecommunications

Communication Systems

Signal Processing

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2018.2886837

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