Low-Overhead Low-Complexity Carrier Phase Recovery Technique for Coherent Multi-Band OFDM-Based Superchannel Systems Enabled by Optical Frequency Combs

Abstract

In this paper, we have designed a low-overhead lowcomplexity carrier phase tracking scheme for OFDM-based superchannel transmission system enabled by optical frequency combs. In this scheme, taking advantage of the broadband phase coherence provided by optical frequency combs among the OFDMbands, the carrier phase retrieved from pilot-subcarriers of the OFDM-band on the central wavelength channel is reused for the OFDM-bands on the other wavelength channels. In this case, the overall pilot-subcarrier overhead and DSP complexity is significantly reduced since the pilot-subcarriers occupy a small fraction of the overall OFDM bandwidth. The feasibility of this joint-carrier phase tracking scheme has been verified successfully via comprehensive simulation, where results show that the BER threshold for soft-decision FEC could be achieved for 50GHzspaced 5-band 4-QAM, 8-QAM, 16-QAM and 32-QAM OFDMbased superchannel signals with zero guard-band and both laser and nonlinear phase noise effects after 7000km, 4000km, 3000km and 2000km SSMF transmission respectively. The simulation results show that there exist chromatic dispersion-induced differential phase offset among the OFDM-bands whose impact on joint-carrier phase tracking depends on the modulation format, channel count and fiber length. Finally, we demonstrate experimentally the feasibility performance of the designed masterslave carrier phase tracking technique for comb-based OFDMbased superchannels.

Estimation of channel distortion in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system using pilot technique

“…Then the article presented an Support vector regression (SVR) model-based channel estimation process. For an OFDM-based super-channel transmission system, Deynu et al [16] devised a carrier phase tracking approach similar to low-overhead, low-complexity via OF combs. Through comprehensive simulation, this phase tracking scheme of joint-carriers feasibility was successfully verified.…”