Recent progress in coherent optical communication, a field revived by advances in digital
signal processing (DSP), is reviewed. DSP-based phase and polarization management …

The performance of direct-detection transceivers employing electronic dispersion
compensation combined with DSP-based receiver linearization techniques is assessed …

We study the properties of nonlinear interference noise (NLIN) in fiber-optic communications
systems with large accumulated dispersion. Our focus is on settling the discrepancy …

Publisher Summary This chapter provides a taxonomy of optical modulation formats along
with experimental techniques for realizing them. High-speed optical transmission systems …

In this paper, we review the historical evolution of predictions of the performance of optical
communication systems. We will describe how such predictions were made from the outset …

This paper reviews recent progress on different high-speed optical short-and medium-reach
transmission systems. Furthermore, a comprehensive tutorial on high-performance, low-cost …

Digital backpropagation (BP) is a universal method for jointly compensating dispersion and
nonlinear impairments in optical fiber and is applicable to signals of any modulation format …

We review the modeling of inter-channel nonlinear interference noise (NLIN) in fiber-optic
communication systems, focusing on the accurate extraction of the NLIN variance, the …

A universal post-compensation scheme for fiber impairments in wavelength-division
multiplexing (WDM) systems is proposed based on coherent detection and digital signal …

We present a linear and nonlinear digital pre-distortion (DPD) tailored to the components of
an optical transmitter. The DPD concept uses nonlinear models of the transmitter devices …