title: Electronic dispersion compensation using full optical-field reconstruction in 10Gbit/s OOK based systems.
abstract: We investigate the design of electronic dispersion compensation (EDC) using full optical-field reconstruction in 10Gbit/s on-off keyed transmission systems limited by optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR). By effectively suppressing the impairment due to low-frequency component amplification in phase reconstruction, properly designing the transmission system configuration to combat fiber nonlinearity, and successfully reducing the vulnerability to thermal noise, a 4.8dB OSNR margin can be achieved for 2160km single-mode fiber transmission without any optical dispersion compensation. We also investigate the performance sensitivity of the scheme to various system parameters, and propose a novel method to greatly enhance the tolerance to differential phase misalignment of the asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometer. This numerical study provides important design guidelines which will enable full optical-field EDC to become a cost-effective dispersion compensation solution for future transparent optical networks.
authors.affiliation: Photonic Systems Group, Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. jian.zhao@tyndall.ie
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: McCarthy
authors.forename: A D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Ellis
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D004581:Electronics; D004867:Equipment Design; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods; D007368:Interferometry / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D055095:Optics and Photonics; D010825:Physics / Q000379:methods