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Channel Arrangement Design in Lumped Amplified WDM Transmission over NZ-DSF Link with Nonlinearity Mitigation Using Optical Phase Conjugation

Shimpei SHIMIZU, Takayuki KOBAYASHI, Takeshi UMEKI, Takushi KAZAMA, Koji ENBUTSU, Ryoichi KASAHARA, Yutaka MIYAMOTO

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Summary :

Optical phase conjugation (OPC) is an all-optical signal processing technique for mitigating fiber nonlinearity and is promising for building cost-efficient fiber networks with few optic-electric-optic conversions and long amplification spacing. In lumped amplified systems, OPC has a little nonlinearity mitigation efficiency for nonlinear distortion induced by cross-phase modulation (XPM) due to the asymmetry of power and chromatic dispersion (CD) maps during propagation in transmission fiber. In addition, the walk-off of XPM-induced noise becomes small due to the CD compensation effect of OPC, so the deterministic nonlinear distortion increases. Therefore, lumped amplified transmission systems with OPC are more sensitive to channel spacing than conventional systems. In this paper, we show the channel spacing dependence of NZ-DSF transmission using amplification repeater with OPC. Numerical simulations show comprehensive characteristics between channel spacing and CD in a 100-Gbps/λ WDM signal. An experimental verification using periodically poled LiNbO3-based OPC is also performed. These results suggest that channel spacing design is more important in OPC-assisted systems than in conventional dispersion-unmanaged systems.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications Vol.E105-B No.7 pp.805-813
Publication Date
2022/07/01
Publicized
2022/01/17
Online ISSN
1745-1345
DOI
10.1587/transcom.2021EBP3179
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Fiber-Optic Transmission for Communications

Authors

Shimpei SHIMIZU
  NTT Corporation
Takayuki KOBAYASHI
  NTT Corporation
Takeshi UMEKI
  NTT Corporation
Takushi KAZAMA
  NTT Corporation
Koji ENBUTSU
  NTT Corporation
Ryoichi KASAHARA
  NTT Corporation
Yutaka MIYAMOTO
  NTT Corporation

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