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S pecial Topic<br />

Super-Receiver Design for Superchannel Coherent Optical Systems<br />

Cheng Liu, Jie Pan, Thomas Detwiler, Andrew Stark, Yu-Ting Hsueh, Gee-Kung Chang, and Stephen E. Ralph<br />

Super-Receiver Design for<br />

Superchannel Coherent Optical<br />

Systems<br />

Cheng Cheng Liu, Liu, Jie Jie Pan, Pan, Thomas Thomas Detwiler, Detwiler, Andrew Andrew Stark, Stark, Yu-Ting Yu-Ting Hsueh, Hsueh, Gee-Kung Gee-Kung Chang, Chang, and and Stephen Stephen E. E. Ralph Ralph<br />

(School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA)<br />

Abstract<br />

In this paper, we propose a novel super-receiver architecture for Nyquist-wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) superchannel optical<br />

coherent systems. As opposed to a conventional coherent receiver, where each subchannel is demodulated independently, the proposed<br />

super-receiver jointly detects and demodulates multiple subchannels simultaneously. By taking advantage of information from side<br />

channels that use joint DSP to cancel interchannel interference (ICI), the proposed super-receiver performs much better than a<br />

conventional receiver. This architecture also has the potential to compensate for cross-channel impairments caused by linear and nonlinear<br />

effects. We examine the proposed architecture through experiment and simulation. OSNR is improved by more than 5 dB after 1280 km fiber<br />

transmission with narrow channel spacing.<br />

Keywords<br />

superchannel; joint DSP; ICI; coherent receiver<br />

S1 Introduction<br />

uperchannel transmission of 1 Tb/s and beyond has<br />

recently been proposed as an alternative to<br />

electrical OFDM for satisfying the bandwidth<br />

requirments of future optical networks. Nyquist<br />

wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) [1]-[4]<br />

and coherent optical OFDM (CO-OFDM) [5] are the main<br />

technologies used to achieve ultrahigh spectral efficiency in<br />

superchannel optical coherent systems. In Nyquist WDM<br />

optical coherent systems, conventional WDM carriers are<br />

packed tightly for near-baud-rate or baud-rate spacing. In<br />

such systems, interchannel interference (ICI) significantly<br />

degrades system performance. The conventional way to<br />

mitigate ICI in a Nyquist WDM system is to apply strong<br />

electrical or optical filtering to each channel and use a digital<br />

signal processor (DSP) to cancel the induced ISI [6].<br />

However, there is still strong ISI when the channel spacing is<br />

tight near the baud rate. Therefore, we propose a novel<br />

coherent receiver architecture called super-receiver for<br />

Nyquist WDM systems. The super-receiver detects and<br />

demodulates multiple channels simultaneously. Taking<br />

advantage of information from side channels that use joint<br />

DSP to cancel ICI, the super-receiver performs much better<br />

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than a conventional receiver, which processes each channel<br />

individually. Because all the side-channel information is<br />

available, other cross-channel impairments, such as<br />

nonlinear cross-phase modulation (XPM), cross-polarization<br />

modulation (XPolM), and four wave mixing (FWM), can be<br />

compensated for. We propose using the super-receiver to<br />

jointly estimate carrier phase from the side channel<br />

information in carrier-locked Nyquist systems. In this paper,<br />

we introduce the super-receiver architecture and describe<br />

the joint DSP algorithms that compensate for linear ICI. We<br />

assess the algorithms using experimental and simulated data.<br />

There is more than 5 dB optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR)<br />

gain at BER = 10 -3 when the channel spacing is at baud rate.<br />

2 Principle and Design<br />

Fig. 1 shows the proposed super-receiver architecture. In<br />

Nyquist WDM systems, tightly spaced optical carriers are<br />

modulated by independent data and packed together by an<br />

optical multiplexer (where ICI is incurred). After optical fiber<br />

transmission and optical demultiplexing, each channel is<br />

separated and sent to its corresponding coherent receiver for<br />

O/E conversion and digital sampling. The local oscillators<br />

(LOs) for coherent receivers are generated in the same way

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