Demonstration of Coherent Transmission Reach Tripling by Frequency-Referenced Nonlinearity Pre-compensation in EDFA-only SMF Link

Conference: ECOC 2016 - 42nd European Conference on Optical Communication
09/18/2016 - 09/22/2016 at Düsseldorf, Deutschland

Proceedings: ECOC 2016

Pages: 3Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Temprana, E.; Myslivets, E.; Ataie, V.; Kuo, B. P.-P. (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, USA)
Alic, N.; Radic, S. (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, USA & Qualcomm Institute, University of California, San Diego, USA)
Vusirikala, V.; Dangui, V. (Google Inc., USA)

Abstract:
A 200% reach extension in a coherent WDM link is demonstrated for the first time by relying on mutually referenced frequency carriers. The reach tripling was achieved by transmitter-side nonlinear impairment cancellation.