Coherent Electronic Compensation Techniques for Long-Haul Optical Fibre Transmission – Opportunities and Challenges

Conference: ECOC 2009 - 35th European Conference on Optical Communication
09/20/2009 - 09/24/2009 at Vienna, Austria

Proceedings: ECOC 2009

Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Bayvel, P.; Behrens, C.; Killey, R. I.; Makovejs, v; Millar, D. S.; Savory, S. J. (Optical Networks Group, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London, Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE, UK)

Abstract:
We review recent advances in the use coherent detection and digital signal processing to compensate for dispersion and nonlinearity in long-haul WDM links, and assess the use of these techniques for long-haul and subsea applications.