Optical phase conjugation for nonlinearity compensation in WDM PDM 16-QAM transmission over dispersion-compensated and dispersion-uncompensated links

Francesco da Ros (1) , Isaac Sackey (2) , Mahmoud Jazayerifar (2) , Thomas Richter (3) , Robert Elschner (3) , Christian Meuer (3) , Markus Nölle (3) , Lutz Molle (3) , Klaus Petermann (2) , Johannes Karl Fischer (3) , Colja Schubert (3) , Christophe Peucheret (4)

1 Department of Photonics Engineering [Lyngby]
2 TU - Technische Universität Berlin
3 Fraunhofer HHI - Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications - Heinrich Hertz Institute
4 FOTON - Fonctions Optiques pour les Technologies de l'informatiON

Kerr nonlinearity compensation by optical phase conjugation is demonstrated in a WDM PDM 16-QAM system. Improved received signal quality is reported for both dispersion-compensated and dispersion-uncompensated transmission and a comparison with digital backpropagation is provided.

Keywords: four-wave mixing; nonlinear optical signal processing; nonlinearity compensation; optical phase conjugation

Domains: Engineering Sciences [physics]; Optics / Photonic

Francesco da Ros, Isaac Sackey, Mahmoud Jazayerifar, Thomas Richter, Robert Elschner, et al.. Optical phase conjugation for nonlinearity compensation in WDM PDM 16-QAM transmission over dispersion-compensated and dispersion-uncompensated links. IEEE Photonics Society 2015 Summer Topical Meeting Series (SUM 2015), IEEE Photonics Society, Jul 2015, Nassau, Bahamas. ⟨10.1109/PHOSST.2015.7248199⟩. ⟨hal-01241003⟩