Data-Aided Iterative Algorithms for Linearizing IM/DD Optical Transmission Systems

DSP-enhanced intensity-modulation direct-detection (IM/DD) systems can support up to 56 Gb/s over 100 km signal transmissions at C-band. To achieve higher data rates and longer transmission distances, we propose data-aided iterative algorithm (DIA) and decision-directed DIA (DD-DIA) to digitally mit...

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Published in:Journal of lightwave technology Vol. 39; no. 9; pp. 2864 - 2872
Main Authors: Hu, Shaohua, Zhang, Jing, Tang, Jianming, Jin, Wei, Giddings, Roger, Qiu, Kun
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York IEEE 01.05.2021
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects:
Adaptive optics
Algorithms
C band
Convergence
Digital signal processing
field reconstruction
IM/DD system
Iterative algorithms
Iterative methods
Optical communication
Optical fibers
Optical filters
Optical modulation
Parameter estimation
Physical layer
Signal processing algorithms
Signal to noise ratio
Signal transmission
Tolerances
ISSN:0733-8724, 1558-2213
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Summary:DSP-enhanced intensity-modulation direct-detection (IM/DD) systems can support up to 56 Gb/s over 100 km signal transmissions at C-band. To achieve higher data rates and longer transmission distances, we propose data-aided iterative algorithm (DIA) and decision-directed DIA (DD-DIA) to digitally mitigate signal-signal beating interference (SSBI) without requiring any modifications to physical layer structures. DIA utilizes pilot symbols with uniformly spaced insertions to relax the modified Gerchberg-Saxton (G-S) algorithms that suffer from the local optimum problem. To further improve the symbol error rate (SER) performance and convergence speed, DD-DIA introduces a decision process to generate pseudo-pilots. We numerically compare DIA with other algorithms and find that DIA can recover signals subject to large fiber dispersions corresponding to which conventional IA and Volterra filter (VF) fail, while DD-DIA significantly accelerates the convergence speed and improves the reconstruction performance compared with DIA, it can support 100-Gb/s PAM4 over 400-km IM/DD transmissions within just 50 iterations. Two orders of magnitude reductions in SER is observed for 100 Gb/s PAM4 signal transmission over 100-km SSMFs. Compared with conventional IA, the proposed techniques have higher convergence speeds, better global optimum features and large tolerances to physical model errors. In particular, DD-DIA results in larger optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR)/ received optical power (ROP) improvement, higher transmission capacities and less computational complexity. DD-DIA is a promising algorithm for efficiently reconstructing 2-dimensional optical field for conventional IM/DD optical transmission systems.
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ISSN:0733-8724
1558-2213
DOI:10.1109/JLT.2021.3063689