Amplifier-free 200-Gb/s tandem SSB doubly differential QPSK signal transmission over 80-km SSMF with simplified receiver-side DSP

Tingting Zhang, Christian Sánchez, Stylianos Sygletos, Ian D Phillips, Andrew D. Ellis

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Abstract

We numerically demonstrate 80-km standard single-mode fiber transmission
without optical amplification, dispersion compensation or carrier recovery using 200-Gb/s tandem single sideband modulated doubly differential QPSK. Simulation results show that doubly differential encoding enables practically constant system performance for frequency offsets within ± 2.3 GHz and allows a linewidth tolerance of 2.5 × 10−3 at 1-dB receiver sensitivity penalty. Employing 2.9-MHz linewidth lasers, the receiver sensitivity penalty at 7% HD-FEC threshold for 80-km transmission is less than 0.2 dB. By adding a 12-symbol decision feedback in the 2nd differential operation of doubly differential decoding, the receiver sensitivity is improved by 3.7 dB.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)8418-8430
JournalOptics Express
Volume26
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 23 Mar 2018

Bibliographical note

© 2018 Optical Society of America. Published by The Optical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI.

Funding: China Scholarship Council (CSC); Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council projects PEACE (EP/L000091/1), UPON (EP/M005283/1), SPFS (EP/L00044X/1), TOM3 (EP/M009092/1), UNLOC (EP/J017582/1); European Union project INVENTION (659950).

Keywords

  • Fiber optics communications, Modulation

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