8th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

The Affection of Fiber Nonlinearity in Coherent Optical Communication System

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/ChinaCom.2013.6694697,
        author={Yaojun Qiao and Yanfei Xu and Zhe Wang and Wenhui Qian and Hongzhan Liu and Yuefeng Ji},
        title={The Affection of Fiber Nonlinearity in Coherent Optical Communication System},
        proceedings={8th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
        year={2013},
        month={11},
        keywords={- fiber nonlinearity g-m effect xpm fwm co-ofdm},
        doi={10.1109/ChinaCom.2013.6694697}
    }
    
  • Yaojun Qiao
    Yanfei Xu
    Zhe Wang
    Wenhui Qian
    Hongzhan Liu
    Yuefeng Ji
    Year: 2013
    The Affection of Fiber Nonlinearity in Coherent Optical Communication System
    CHINACOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/ChinaCom.2013.6694697
Yaojun Qiao1,*, Yanfei Xu1, Zhe Wang1, Wenhui Qian1, Hongzhan Liu1, Yuefeng Ji1
  • 1: Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
*Contact email: qiao@bupt.edu.cn

Abstract

In this paper, we firstly analyzed the Gordon and Mollenauer (G-M) effect in dual polarization quaternary phase shift keying (DP-QPSK) system, whose simulation results indicate that the G-M is the main impairment which should be given a careful consideration. Secondly, a self-correlation technique was used to extract the cross phase modulation (XPM)-induced phase noise and XPM-induced polarization scattering for analyzing the characteristics of XPM in coherent optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (CO-OFDM) wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) transmission systems. The phase noise is verified as the dominant distortion in DP-OFDM systems while the XPM-induced polarization crosstalk is proved to be the decisive distortion in DP-QPSK coherent experiment. Thirdly, we discovered that the statistical characterization of the nonlinear noise in densely spaced 16QAM OFDM system deviate from Gauss distribution in the absence of amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noise that cannot be regarded as the same in QPSK system.