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Digital backpropagation accounting for polarization-mode dispersion

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Czegledi, CB 
Liga, G 
Lavery, D 
Karlsson, M 
Agrell, E 

Abstract

. Digital backpropagation (DBP) is a promising digital-domain technique to mitigate Kerr-induced nonlinear interference. While it successfully removes deterministic signal-signal interactions, the performance of ideal DBP is limited by stochastic effects, such as polarizationmode dispersion (PMD). In this paper, we consider an ideal full-field DBP implementation and modify it to additionally account for PMD; reversing the PMD effects in the backward propagation by passing the reverse propagated signal also through PMD sections, which concatenated equal the inverse of the PMD in the forward propagation. These PMD sections are calculated analytically at the receiver based on the total accumulated PMD of the link estimated from channel equalizers. Numerical simulations show that, accounting for nonlinear polarization-related interactions in the modified DBP algorithm, additional signal-to-noise ratio gains of 1.1 dB are obtained for transmission over 1000 km.

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1005 Communications Technologies

Journal Title

Optics Express

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Journal ISSN

1094-4087
1094-4087

Volume Title

25

Publisher

OSA
Sponsorship
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/J017582/1)
Swedish Research Council (VR) (2012-5280); UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) (EP/J017582/1, UNLOC).