We experimentally demonstrate a distance-wise, wavelength-dependent link tomography extraction scheme using receiver DSP. This approach permits the estimation of gain spectrum and tilt in C+L-band EDFAs with a maximum mean absolute error of 0.6 dB.

A successful migration from current C-band based optical networks to a multiband scenario primarily depends on the development of solutions that can reliably measure physical properties of optical links over broad spectral transmission windows. Additionally, these solutions must be capable of delivering wavelength-dependent and spatially-resolved indicators that can empower network operators to identify faults before they lead to severe service disruptions. Recently, the exploitation of receiver based digital signal processing as a tool for optical performance monitoring has gained tremendous popularity. One successful example is the so-called in-situ power profile estimator, which can reconstruct the per-channel longitudinal power profile along the optical fiber link solely processing the received signal samples. In this work, we propose a novel application for the in-situ power profile estimator by harnessing it on multiple wavelengths to accurately estimate the spectral gain profile of C+L-band in-line Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers deployed in a 280-km single mode fiber link. Furthermore, we show how this scheme can be efficiently used to detect amplification-related anomalies, such as gain tilt and narrowband gain compression. In our measurements, we achieved a sub-dB estimation accuracy by comparing the proposed gain extraction approach with the back-to-back characterization obtained from an optical spectrum analyzer.

One promising and competitive solution to keep up with the rapid growth in data traffic while at the same time addressing increasing network cost, is the efficient reuse of legacy optical fiber infrastructure. This is highly desirable as deployed single mode fibers represent a valuable asset in the network while new installations would require high additional investments. Multiband (MB) or ultra-wideband (UWB) systems, combined with high symbol rates and higher-order modulation formats, are promising solutions to capitalize the already existing fiber plants. In this contribution, we experimentally demonstrate S-C-L-band reception with 64 GBd dual-polarization (DP) 64-ary and 32-ary quadratureamplitude modulation (QAM) while using C-band components off-the-shelf (COTS) such as DP-IQ modulators and coherent receivers. To achieve such broadband operation with components that are not optimized for an out-of-band use, mitigation of the associated penalties is decisive. To this end, we apply an end-toend electro-optical Volterra-based coherent system identification followed by nonlinear digital predistortion of the transmitter. We achieve 150-nm operation bandwidth of the transmission system by performing only a single identification and predistortion at a reference wavelength of 1500 nm.

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Silicon photonic two-dimensional grating couplers for C-and O-band dual-polarization coherent transceivers are analyzed with respect to their polarization splitting/combining performance. Due to scattered light in the grating's plane, a linear cross-polarization results. The latter is responsible for a limited polarization split ratio and a polarizations' non-orthogonality. The impact of these two quantities is evaluated by system-level simulations with regard to OSNR penalties in coherent systems. For both C-and O-band, a design modification for reduced penalties is proposed.

We present a digital signal processing (DSP) scheme that performs hyperparameter tuning (HT) via Bayesian optimization (BO) to autonomously optimize memory tap distribution of Volterra series and adapt parameters used in the synthetization of a digital pre-distortion (DPD) filter for optical transmitters. Besides providing a time-efficient technique, this work demonstrates that the self-adaptation of DPD hyperparameters to correct the component-induced nonlinear distortions as different driver amplifier (DA) gains, symbol rates and modulation formats are used, leads to an improvement in transmitter performance. The scheme has been validated in backto-back (b2b) experiments using dual-polarization (DP) 64 and 256 quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) formats, and symbol rates of 64 and 80 GBd. For DP-64QAM at 64 GBd, it isshown that the DPD scheme reduces the required optical signalto-noise ratio (OSNR) at a bit error ratio of 10 -2 by 0.9 dB and 0.6 dB with respect to linear DPD and a heuristic nonlinear DPD approach, respectively. Moreover, we show that the proposed approach also reduces filter complexity by 75% in conjunction with the use of memory polynomials (MP), while achieving a similar performance to Volterra pre-distortion filters.

We experimentally demonstrate S-band reception of 64-GBd PDM-64/32-QAM using standard C-band components. Operation below SD-FEC is enabled by nonlinear transmitter pre-distortion based on coherent system identification supporting up to 150 nm bandwidth in the S-C-L-band.

We demonstrate a DSP scheme that autonomously adapts the design of Volterra and memory polynomial digital pre-distortion filters in S+C+L-band transmission. We validate it with a DP-32QAM signal at 64 GBd over 40-km of SSMF.