Abstract
We propose an adaptive joint pre- and post-compensation to correct the filtering effects caused by cascading reconfigurable optical add drop multiplexers (ROADMs). The improvement is achieved without using additional hardware (HW) on the link or within the signal processor in the transponders. Using Monte Carlo simulations, the gradient-descent based method shows an improvement of 0.6 dB and 1.1 dB in the required optical signal-to-noise ratio (R-OSNR) at the threshold pre-decoder bit error rate (BER) of 0.02 versus pre-compensation only in the linear and nonlinear operating region of fiber respectively. We experimentally verified the method with lab measurements in the presence of heavy filtering and optical impairments. We observed a gain up to ~0.4 dB compared to typically used pre-compensation only. Additionally, other tangible system benefits of our method are listed and discussed.
Highlights
The deployment of optical switches, such as reconfigurable optical add drop multiplexing (ROADM), was a key milestone in enabling all-optical transmission, as illustrated in Figure 1a, from source to destination in a dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) network
We start by studying the effect of filtering and Polarization Dependent Loss (PDL) on the system performance without any kind of optimization, i.e., the adaptive Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) filters at the Rx is compensating for all the impairments
We notice that the ROSNR penalty, at 2%
Summary
The deployment of optical switches, such as reconfigurable optical add drop multiplexing (ROADM), was a key milestone in enabling all-optical transmission, as illustrated in Figure 1a, from source to destination in a dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) network. The deployment of optical switches, such as reconfigurable optical add drop multiplexing (ROADM), was a key milestone in enabling all-optical transmission, as illustrated, from source to destination in a dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) network. They offer great advantages for service providers such as simplification of network planning and provisioning, reduction in infrastructure cost and lower power consumption (no electrical to optical, and vice-versa, conversion required). Each optical link is split into sections called spans. The latter is characterized by the position of ROADM nodes. “Broadcast and Select” and “Route and Select” are two main switching architectures based on ROADMs discussed in [4]
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