title: Intra-symbol frequency-domain averaging based channel estimation for coherent optical OFDM.
abstract: We present an efficient channel estimation method for coherent optical OFDM (CO-OFDM) based on intra-symbol frequency-domain averaging (ISFA), and systematically study its robustness against transmission impairments such as optical noise, chromatic dispersion (CD), polarization-mode dispersion (PMD), polarization-dependent loss (PDL), and fiber nonlinearity. Numerical simulations are performed for a 112-Gb/s polarization-division multiplexed (PDM) CO-OFDM signal, and the ISFAbased channel estimation and the subsequent channel compensation are found to be highly robust against these transmission impairments in typical optical transport systems.
authors.affiliation: Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, 791 Holmdel-Keyport Road, Holmdel, New Jersey 07733, USA. xliu20@alcatel-lucent.com
authors.forename: Xiang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Fred
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Buchali