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Coherent detection and digital signal processing techniques have driven a remarkable development in optical transport technologies, enabling channels at 100 Gb/s to be transmitted over thousands of kilometers. Future optical communications systems will achieve even higher data rates (> Gb/s) through the deployment of superchannels, a designation for subcarrier multiplexing in the optical domain. In addition, a software-defined configuration of modulation format, transmission rate and coding scheme will enable advanced features such as automatic bandwidth provisioning and optimized spectrum allocation. However, compared with the wireless environment, optical systems are still very primitive in terms of intelligence, because their installation and operation require highly skilled manpower. The solution to this problem are adaptive optical transceivers, able to sense the channel conditions and to adapt their operation parameters to extend reach and reduce power consumption. In this paper we review a set of enabling concepts and algorithms of an adaptive optical transceiver, and discuss the challenges for its successful implementation.

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We experimentally investigate the performance of the signal power autocorrelation-based method for chromatic dispersion (CD) estimation in a polarizationmultiplexing quadrature phase-shift keying (PM-QPSK) 100G coherent optical system conveying optical channel transport unit level-4 (OTU4) frames. It is shown that the typical laboratory setup, where the signal components are generated from delayed versions of the same pseudorandom binary sequence (PRBS), is inadequate for experimental validation because of artifacts in the signal auto-correlation function. This problem is circumvented by the use of a commercial line card transporting independent data sequences. The algorithm is used to estimate accumulated CD values from 0 to 50 000 ps/nm under up to 80-ps differential group delay (DGD). We further evaluate its convergence properties in terms of the length of the sample vector required for correct CD estimation and address the hardware resource requirements. The CD-shifted version of the algorithm yielded a maximum estimation error of 186 ps/nm in all tested conditions.

We report on the transmission performance of a 10x10Gb/s low-cost photonic integrated transceiver comprising a reflective SOA-based laser array and a reflective EAM array over 825km under mixed 10G/40G traffic conditions at 50GHz grid