title: Empirical modeling and simulation of phase noise in long-haul coherent optical transmission systems.
abstract: An empirical phase noise channel model suitable for performance evaluation of high spectrally efficient modulations in 100G long-haul coherent optical transmission systems using polarization-division multiplexed and wavelength-division multiplexing channels is presented. The derivation of the model is worked out by exploiting the similarity between the power spectral density of the carrier extracted from the analysis of propagation measurements and the Lorentzian spectrum that is usually adopted to describe instabilities of semiconductor lasers. The proposed channel model is characterized by only two parameters: the linewidth of the carrier and the signal-to-noise ratio. We show that in the case of quadrature phase-shift keying transmission a good agreement exists between quantitative measures of performance extracted by processing experimental data and those obtained from simulations based on the use of the empirical model.
authors: Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133 Milano, Italy. magarini@elet.polimi.it
authors: Maurizio
authors: M
authors: Magarini
authors: Arnaldo
authors: A
authors: Spalvieri
authors: Francesco
authors: F
authors: Vacondio
authors: Marco
authors: M
authors: Bertolini
authors: Marianna
authors: M
authors: Pepe
authors: Giancarlo
authors: G
authors: Gavioli