Volterra-based Nonlinear Compensation in 400 Gb/s WDM Multiband Coherent Optical OFDM Systems

V Vgenopoulou (1) , A. Amari (2) , Mengdi Song (3) , E Pincemin (3) , I Roudas (3) , Yves Jaouën (1)

1 COMELEC - Département Communications & Electronique
2 ISAE-SUPAERO - Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace
3 Orange Labs [Lannion]

We apply a 3 rd-order inverse Volterra series nonlinear equalizer to a 400 Gb/s WDM multiband PM-16QAM OFDM signal. IVSTF-NLE provides a 0.6 dB Q-factor improvement and 1 dB nonlinear threshold increase compared to linear equalization.

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

V Vgenopoulou, A. Amari, Mengdi Song, E Pincemin, I Roudas, et al.. Volterra-based Nonlinear Compensation in 400 Gb/s WDM Multiband Coherent Optical OFDM Systems. Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP 2014), Nov 2014, Shanghai China. ⟨10.1364/ACPC.2014.AF1E.4⟩. ⟨hal-01310317⟩