Open AccessInformation-rate analysis of a fiber-optic transmission system including 2R signal regenerators
Author(s) -
Masayuki Matsumoto
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.21.026762
Subject(s) - optics , signal (programming language) , transmission (telecommunications) , regenerative heat exchanger , dispersion (optics) , optical fiber , transmission system , channel (broadcasting) , residual , materials science , signal processing , computer science , telecommunications , physics , algorithm , radar , heat exchanger , thermodynamics , programming language
Performance of a single-channel fiber-optic transmission system in which signal regenerators are periodically inserted is analyzed in terms of information rate (IR) considering channel memory. Limitations in using regenerators in a system having non-zero residual dispersion between the regenerators are discussed. It is shown that a type of signal impairment caused by the interaction between the transmission-fiber dispersion and the regenerator nonlinearity is pattern-dependent and will be mitigated by the use of sequence estimation after detection at the receiver.