Digital compensation of imperfect pump counter-phasing induced phase distortion in optical phase conjugation of high-order QAM

Thanh Tu Nguyen, Sonia Boscolo, Abdallah Ali, Stylianos Sygletos, Shigehiro Takasaka, Ryuichi Sugizaki, Andrew D. Ellis

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Abstract

We propose a new two-stage digital signal processing scheme to suppress the phase
distortion that arises from imperfect pump counter-phasing in a dual-pump fibre-based optical phase conjugation system. We demonstrate experimentally and numerically a signal-to-noise ratio improvement of more than 4 dB relative to conventional phase noise compensation, when the proposed scheme is used with 16/64/256 quadrature-amplitude modulation signals at pump-phase mismatch values as large as 8°.
Original languageEnglish
Article number418386
Pages (from-to)17464-17475
Number of pages12
JournalOptics Express
Volume29
Issue number11
Early online date21 May 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 24 May 2021

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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. This work was supported by the UK EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) (EP/R035342/1 - TRANSNET, EP/S003436/1 - PHOS, EP/S016171/1 - EEMC).

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