Performance evaluation of modulation format independent carrier phase estimation and decision directed carrier phase estimation for fiber non-linearity mitigation

Lalitha Pakala; Bernhard Schmauss

doi:10.1117/12.2074897

25 September 2014 Performance evaluation of modulation format independent carrier phase estimation and decision directed carrier phase estimation for fiber non-linearity mitigation

Lalitha Pakala, Bernhard Schmauss

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Proceedings Volume 9288, Photonics North 2014; 928808 (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2074897
Event: Photonics North 2014, 2014, Montréal, Canada

Abstract

We numerically investigate and compare the performance of modulation format independent carrier phase esti- mation (CPE) (or universal CPE (U-CPE)) and decision directed CPE (DD-CPE) along with digital backward propagation (DBP) to compensate fiber non-linearity, for polarization multiplexed (PM) 4 and 16-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) coherent systems. We analyze the impact of each of the CPE methods in reducing the complexity of DBP, in terms of required DBP steps, as well as the influence of the laser line width effects on their performance. By optimizing the step size, the U-CPE method, in spite of its low complexity, exhibits a similar performance as the DD-CPE method in non-linearity mitigation. However, at high signal launch powers, and in the presence of laser phase noise, the performance of DD-CPE method is significantly impaired owing to increased erroneous pre-decisions, whereas, the U-CPE method is still capable of mitigating both non-linearity and phase noise, equivalently good as the ideal DD-CPE case. Moreover, also without DBP for non-linear compensation, U-CPE method outperforms the DD-CPE method allowing high signal launch powers and with greater tolerance towards phase noise.

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Lalitha Pakala and Bernhard Schmauss "Performance evaluation of modulation format independent carrier phase estimation and decision directed carrier phase estimation for fiber non-linearity mitigation", Proc. SPIE 9288, Photonics North 2014, 928808 (25 September 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2074897

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