The fastest ever 11.25Gb/s real-time FPGA-based optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OOFDM) transceivers utilizing 64-QAM encoding/decoding and significantly improved variable power loading are experimentally demonstrated, for the first time, incorporating advanced functionalities of on-line performance monitoring, live system parameter optimization and channel estimation. Real-time end-to-end transmission of an 11.25Gb/s 64-QAM-encoded OOFDM signal with a high electrical spectral efficiency of 5.625bit/s/Hz over 25km of standard and MetroCor single-mode fibres is successfully achieved with respective power penalties of 0.3dB and -0.2dB at a BER of 1.0 x 10(-3) in a directly modulated DFB laser-based intensity modulation and direct detection system without in-line optical amplification and chromatic dispersion compensation. The impacts of variable power loading as well as electrical and optical components on the transmission performance of the demonstrated transceivers are experimentally explored in detail. In addition, numerical simulations also show that variable power loading is an extremely effective means of escalating system performance to its maximum potential.
Coherent optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (CO-OFDM) has attracted a lot of interest in optical fiber communications due to its simplified digital signal processing (DSP) units, high spectral-efficiency, flexibility, and tolerance to linear impairments. However, CO-OFDM's high peak-to-average power ratio imposes high vulnerability to fiber-induced non-linearities. DSP-based machine learning has been considered as a promising approach for fiber non-linearity compensation without sacrificing computational complexity. In this paper, we review the existing machine learning approaches for CO-OFDM in a common framework and review the progress in this area with a focus on practical aspects and comparison with benchmark DSP solutions.Future Internet 2019, 11, 2 2 of 20 between the spatial modes, compared to the SMFs. On the other hand, the drive towards higher-order modulation formats, such as 16-QAM, and spectral-efficient techniques, such as orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM), lead to greater transmission impairments, reducing the maximum distance over which increased capacity can be provided. More specific, denser constellation diagrams render higher-order modulation formats are more susceptible to circularly-symmetric Gaussian noise as generated by Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) along the transmission link [6]. Even though the launch power per wavelength channel can be increased to improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the receiver, transmission is limited by nonlinear distortions due to the Kerr effect, which have a more severe impact on higher-order modulation formats and spectral-efficient modulation schemes [5,7].Moreover, the transmission of more than two signal wavelengths (wavelength-division multiplexing, WDM) through an optical fibre generates four-wave mixing (FWM), a process caused by the power dependence of the refractive index of the optical fibre [3]. FWM is related to fibre nonlinearity and gives rise to new wavelengths which significantly degrade the signal quality especially at high optical powers and when signals are spectrally close to each other. FWM is one of the most dominant nonlinear effects in optical networks and a primary root of the capacity crunch [3]. Since nonlinear noise such as FWM is highly correlated to signals themselves, nonlinearity can be mitigated by performing special treatment of the signals or conducting post-transmission digital signal processing (DSP) on received signals [5,7].On the other hand, coherent optical OFDM (CO-OFDM) [8] has attracted a lot of interest in optical fiber communications due to its simplified DSP units, high spectral-efficiency, flexibility, and tolerance to linear impairments. However, CO-OFDM's high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) imposes high vulnerability to fiber-induced nonlinearities [8]. Attempts to combat nonlinearities in CO-OFDM have been performed by deterministic nonlinearity compensators which take advantage of the fact that light scattering within a fibre is a deterministic process. Key te...
Abstract-Fiber-induced intra-and inter-channel nonlinearities are experimentally tackled using blind nonlinear equalization (NLE) by unsupervised machine learning based clustering (MLC) in ~46 Gb/s single-channel and ~20 Gb/s (middle-channel) multi-channel coherent multi-carrier signals (OFDM-based). To that end we introduce, for the first time, Hierarchical and FuzzyLogic C-means (FLC) based clustering in optical communications. It is shown that among the two proposed MLC algorithms, FLC reveals the highest performance at optimum launched optical powers (LOPs), while at very high LOPs Hierarchical can compensate more effectively nonlinearities only for low-level modulation formats. When employing BPSK and QPSK, FLC outperforms K-means, Fast-Newton support vector machines, supervised artificial neural networks and NLE with deterministic Volterra analysis. In particular, for the middle channel of a QPSK WDM coherent optical OFDM system at optimum -5 dBm of LOP and 3200 km of transmission, FLC outperforms Volterra-NLE by 2.5 dB in Q-factor. However, for a 16-QAM single-channel system at 2000 km, the performance benefit of FLC over IVSTF reduces to ~0.4 dB at a LOP of 2 dBm (optimum). Even when using novel sophisticated clustering designs in 16 clusters, no more than additional ~0.3 dB Q-factor enhancement is observed. Finally, in contrast to the deterministic Volterra-NLE, MLC algorithms can partially tackle the stochastic parametric noise amplification.
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