Signal-Noise Interaction in Optical-Fiber Communication Systems Employing Nonlinear Frequency-Division Multiplexing
Autor: | Anastasiia Vasylchenkova, Maryna Pankratova, Jaroslaw E. Prilepsky, Stanislav A. Derevyanko, Nikolai B. Chichkov |
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Rok vydání: | 2020 |
Předmět: |
Physics
Noise (signal processing) General Physics and Astronomy 02 engineering and technology 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Communications system 01 natural sciences Signal Frequency-division multiplexing Nonlinear system Sampling (signal processing) Transmission (telecommunications) 0103 physical sciences Dispersion (optics) Electronic engineering 010306 general physics 0210 nano-technology |
Zdroj: | Physical Review Applied |
ISSN: | 2331-7019 |
Popis: | We address the properties of nonlinear-Fourier-transform (NFT)-based fiber-optic communications systems and, particularly, study how the presence of noise deteriorates the performance of these systems. Similarly to the case of linear Fourier modes evolving independently under the action of chromatic dispersion alone, NFT-based systems employ so-called ``nonlinear modes,'' forming a nonlinear spectrum, as data carriers, and these nonlinear modes evolve independently in an uncoupled manner under the joint action of nonlinearity and dispersion. However, the influence of amplified-spontaneous-emission (ASE) noise on these nonlinear modes is still relatively poorly studied. In this paper, dealing with a continuous nonlinear spectrum, we scrutinize the properties of the effective noise emerging in the nonlinear Fourier domain. We also show that in the transmission stages, where the signal peak power is relatively high (e.g., at the receiver, in back-to-back transmission, or at short distances), the performance of an NFT system is mostly degraded not by the inline ASE noise, but by the imperfections of the digital sampling and the forward and backward NFT algorithms, i.e., by the NFT processing noise. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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