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  • Editor: C. Martijn de Sterke
  • Vol. 20, Iss. 15 — Jul. 16, 2012
  • pp: 17017–17028

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Experimental Study of a novel adaptive decision-directed channel equalizer in 28 GBaud RGI-DP-CO-OFDM transport systems

Mohammad E. Mousa-Pasandi, Qunbi Zhuge, Xian Xu, Mohamed M. Osman, Mathieu Chagnon, and David V. Plant  »View Author Affiliations


Optics Express, Vol. 20, Issue 15, pp. 17017-17028 (2012)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.20.017017


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Abstract

We report and experimentally investigate the performance of an adaptive decision-directed channel equalizer (ADDCE) in reduced-guard-interval dual-polarization coherent-optical orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexing (RGI-DP-CO-OFDM) transport systems. ADDCE retrieves an estimation of the phase noise value after an initial decision making stage by extracting and averaging the phase drift of all OFDM sub-channels. Moreover, it updates the channel transfer matrix on a symbol-by-symbol basis. We experimentally compare the performance of the ADDCE and the conventional equalizer (CE) combined with maximum-likelihood (ML) phase noise compensation and inter-subcarrier-frequency-averaging (ISFA) algorithms. The study is conducted at 28 GBaud for RGI-DP-CO-OFDM systems with quadrature-phase-shift-keying (QPSK) and 16 quadrature amplitude modulation (16-QAM) formats. Using ADDCE, zero-overhead laser phase noise compensation is accomplished and the overhead due to training symbol (TSs) insertion is significantly reduced. In addition, ADDCE offers a superior performance over the CE in the presence of synchronization timing errors and residual chromatic dispersion (CD). We also achieve a longer transmission distance than when using the CE. At a forward-error-correction (FEC) threshold of 3.8 × 10−3, using a cumulative overhead of less than 2.6%, transmission distances of 5500 km and 400 km were achieved for the cases of QPSK and 16-QAM RGI-DP-CO-OFDM, respectively.

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OCIS Codes
(060.1660) Fiber optics and optical communications : Coherent communications
(060.4080) Fiber optics and optical communications : Modulation

ToC Category:
Fiber Optics and Optical Communications

History
Original Manuscript: May 18, 2012
Revised Manuscript: June 28, 2012
Manuscript Accepted: July 3, 2012
Published: July 11, 2012

Citation
Mohammad E. Mousa-Pasandi, Qunbi Zhuge, Xian Xu, Mohamed M. Osman, Mathieu Chagnon, and David V. Plant, "Experimental Study of a novel adaptive decision-directed channel equalizer in 28 GBaud RGI-DP-CO-OFDM transport systems," Opt. Express 20, 17017-17028 (2012)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-20-15-17017


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