Abstract
Nonlinear Fourier transform (NFT)-based nonlinear frequency division multiplexing (NFDM) system has the potential to overcome the limit of fiber nonlinearity. In the NFDM system, the symbol information is modulated onto the nonlinear spectra, which consist of continuous and discrete spectrum. In theory, the dual-polarization (DP) NFDM system with the continuous and discrete spectrum (full spectrum, FS) modulation has the potential to achieve higher spectral efficiency. However, due to the complexity of the NFT and inverse NFT (INFT) numerical algorithms, the DP-FS modulated NFDM system is rarely reported. For the FS-NFDM system, the existing INFT algorithms either only support q-modulation and present poor performance, or have large discrete spectral error as the continuous spectrum energy increases. In this paper, we propose an INFT algorithm design theory. Based the theory, an accurate DP-INFT algorithm is proposed. The algorithm supports not only q-modulation, but also b-modulation with better performance. Employing the proposed INFT algorithm, we demonstrate, for the first time, a 174.5Gbit/s FS modulated NFDM transmission system with 1440km.
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