Performance limits in optical communications due to fiber nonlinearity

AD Ellis, ME McCarthy, MAZ Al Khateeb… - Advances in Optics …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
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 …

4 Tb/s transmission reach enhancement using 10× 400 Gb/s super-channels and polarization insensitive dual band optical phase conjugation

AD Ellis, M Tan, MA Iqbal, MAZ Al-Khateeb… - Journal of lightwave …, 2016 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we experimentally demonstrate the benefit of polarization insensitive dual-
band optical phase conjugation for up to ten 400 Gb/s optical super-channels using a …

A review of advancements in DP-QPSK WDM systems

N Sharma, S Agrawal, V Kapoor - Optical and Quantum Electronics, 2022 - Springer
Dual polarization quadrature phase-shifting keying (DP-QPSK) wavelength division
multiplexing (WDM) systems are currently acting as the backbone of long-haul optical …

Capacity limits of systems employing multiple optical phase conjugators

AD Ellis, ME McCarthy, MAZ Al-Khateeb, S Sygletos - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We extend the theory of parametric noise amplification to the case of transmission systems
employing multiple optical phase conjugators, demonstrating that the excess noise due to …

Information rates in Kerr nonlinearity limited optical fiber communication systems

T Xu, NA Shevchenko, Y Zhang, C Jin, J Zhao, T Liu - Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Achievable information rates of optical communication systems are inherently limited by
nonlinear distortions due to the Kerr effect occurred in optical fibres. These nonlinear …

Achievable information rates estimates in optically amplified transmission systems using nonlinearity compensation and probabilistic shaping

D Semrau, T Xu, NA Shevchenko, M Paskov… - Optics letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Achievable information rates (AIRs) of wideband optical communication systems using a∼
40 nm (∼ 5 THz) erbium-doped fiber amplifier and∼ 100 nm (∼ 12.5 THz) distributed …

On the limits of digital back-propagation in the presence of transceiver noise

L Galdino, D Semrau, D Lavery, G Saavedra… - Optics …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
This paper investigates the impact of transceiver noise on the performance of digital back-
propagation (DBP). A generalized expression to estimate the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) …

The benefit of split nonlinearity compensation for single-channel optical fiber communications

D Lavery, D Ives, G Liga, A Alvarado… - IEEE Photonics …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we analyze the benefit of digital compensation of fiber nonlinearity, where the
digital signal processing is divided between the transmitter and the receiver. The application …

Priority-aware traffic routing and resource allocation mechanism for space-division multiplexing elastic optical networks

R Lopes, D Rosário, E Cerqueira, H Oliveira… - Computer Networks, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent years, the introduction of new technologies and applications connected to the
Internet has demonstrated the physical incapacity of current optical backbone networks in …

PMD tolerant nonlinear compensation using in-line phase conjugation

ME McCarthy, MAZ Al Kahteeb, FM Ferreira… - Optics Express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we numerically investigate the impact of polarisation mode dispersion on the
efficiency of compensation of nonlinear transmission penalties for systems employing one of …