An Improved Technique for Suppression of Intrachannel Four-Wave Mixing in 40-Gb/s Optical Transmission Systems

This letter presents an efficient method for testing the efficiency of modulation techniques for countering the effects of intrachannel four-wave mixing by calculating the sum of all the contributors at a given resonance position (the position affected by the surrounding pulses). In addition to this method, we are proposing a modulation technique that shows a significant Q-factor improvement of up to 7.5 dB (depending on the number of spans and the phase sequence implemented) over the uncoded return-to-zero on-off keying. Although the implementation of this phase modulation technique is simple, it is still very efficient in extending the nonlinearity tolerance and enhancing the performance of a high-speed optical transmission system     

Proposal to Achieve 1 Tb/s per Wavelength Transmission Using Three-Dimensional LDPC-Coded Modulation

We propose a three-dimensional (3-D) low-density parity check (LDPC)-coded modulation scheme that enables optical transmission beyond 320 Gb/s in aggregate rate using currently available commercial components operating at 40 giga-symbols/s. The proposed scheme introduces significant performance improvement of up to 4.1 dB at a bit-error ratio of 10^-9 over the corresponding two-dimensional scheme. In addition, by using LDPC-coded 1024-3D-constellation it is possible, at least in theory, to achieve beyond a total of 1-Tb/s transmission using transmission equipment operating at 100 giga-symbols/s, once it reaches the maturity of 40-Gb/s systems.     

Beyond 240 Gb/s per Wavelength Optical Transmission Using Coded Hybrid Subcarrier/Amplitude/Phase/Polarization Modulation

In this letter, we propose a low-density parity-check coded hybrid subcarrier/amplitude/phase/polarization (H-SAPP) modulation scheme suitable to achieve a 240-Gb/s single-channel transmission rate over optical channels. The proposed scheme doubles the aggregate transmission rate achievable by eight-quadrature amplitude modulation while providing 2-dB optical signal-to-noise ratio performance improvement at a bit-error-ratio (BER) of $10^{-6}$ . Moreover, H-SAPP can increase the aggregate rate of the hybrid amplitude/phase/polarization scheme while maintaining the BER performance intact.      

PMD Compensation by LDPC-Coded Turbo Equalization

A turbo equalization scheme suitable for electronic polarization-mode dispersion compensation based on low-density parity-check coding and the Bahl-Cocke-Jelinek-Raviv (BCJR) equalizer is proposed. For reasonable BCJR equalizer complexity, the differential group delay of up to three bit-periods can be compensated.