Open AccessAnalysis of Nonlinearity Mitigation Using Spectral Inversion for Superchannel Transmission
Author(s) -
Inwoong Kim,
Olga Vassilieva,
Paparao Palacharla,
Motoyoshi Sekiya,
Tadashi Ikeuchi
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
ieee photonics journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.725
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1943-0655
pISSN - 1943-0647
DOI - 10.1109/jphot.2016.2611445
Subject(s) - engineered materials, dielectrics and plasmas , photonics and electrooptics
We propose a simplified analytical model for the estimation of nonlinearity mitigation using spectral inversion. We demonstrate excellent agreement between analytical model and numerical simulations within a standard deviation of 0.2 dB Q-factor for five-subcarrier superchannel transmission over various uniform and non-uniform link configurations. The analytical model can enable fast and accurate estimation of optical reach improvement from flexible placement of spectral inversion in superchannel transmission over practical link configurations.