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Nonlinear Impact of Diverse Optical Routing in Uncompensated 120 Gb/s PM-QPSK Links
1. Steven Searcy and Sorin Tibuleac
ADVA Optical Networking, Norcross, GA, USA
14 October 2014
Nonlinear Impact of Diverse
Optical Routing in Uncompensated
120 Gb/s PM-QPSK Links
2. IEEE Photonics Conference 2 2014, paper TuF1.4
• Assessing transmission performance for DWDM systems
• Common assumption in analyzing system performance (esp. nonlinear
effects) is that all channels co-propagate over entire link
• Many deployed point-to-point systems match this configuration
Introduction & Motivation
Purely
Point-to-Point
System
(No Add/Drop)
3. IEEE Photonics Conference 3 2014, paper TuF1.4
• Assessing transmission performance for DWDM systems
• Common assumption in analyzing system performance (esp. nonlinear
effects) is that all channels co-propagate over entire link
• Many deployed point-to-point systems match this configuration
• However, many deployed systems have a substantial degree of add/drop
traffic and may behave differently investigate this scenario
Introduction & Motivation
Network with
Add/Drop
traffic at
ROADM nodes
along path
4. IEEE Photonics Conference 4 2014, paper TuF1.4
• Changes in add/drop conditions have been shown to have
substantial impact on nonlinear tolerance in CD-compensated
10G systems; effect is strongly dependent on residual CD
Dispersion compensated systems
Figure from [3] T. Zami, et al., Proc. ECOC 2009, paper 1.5.2
5. IEEE Photonics Conference 5 2014, paper TuF1.4
• Nonlinear performance in uncompensated system often analyzed
based on assumption of Gaussian nonlinear noise [1]
• These underlying conditions are not always met with frequent add/drop
• Add channels may have zero initial CD if originating at Add node, or
some positive CD accumulated on a different path in mesh network
Dispersion uncompensated systems
Figure from [5] F. Vacondio, et
al., Opt. Express 20(2), 2012.
6. IEEE Photonics Conference 6 2014, paper TuF1.4
Experimental configuration
• Commercial 120 Gb/s PM-QPSK transceiver with real-time DSP
• Recirculating Loop with all-EDFA amplification, four spans
TrueWave-RS fiber, WSS every two spans for optional add/drop
7. IEEE Photonics Conference 7 2014, paper TuF1.4
Test conditions
• 19x100G channels on 50 GHz grid (test channel + 18 neighbors)
• 50GHz channel slots adjacent to test channel are left empty, to eliminate
filtering on test channel in all cases optical filtering may produce
complex interactions with nonlinear effects [4] (left for further study)
• Four different test cases:
• A: No Add/Drop (all channels co-propagate)
• B: Add/Drop all neighbors every 4 spans
• C: Add/Drop all neighbors every 2 spans
• C-PD: same as C, with Add channels pre-dispersed
• Initially passed through 1 span of ULAF (~2000 ps/nm pre-dispersion)
8. IEEE Photonics Conference 8 2014, paper TuF1.4
Nonlinear OSNR Penalty results
• Baseline case—no add/drop, all channels co-propagate
9. IEEE Photonics Conference 9 2014, paper TuF1.4
Nonlinear OSNR Penalty results
• ~0.75-1.0 dB nonlinear benefit (@1 dB OSNR penalty)
from Add/Drop of all neighbors every 4 spans
10. IEEE Photonics Conference 10 2014, paper TuF1.4
Nonlinear OSNR Penalty results
• ~1.0-1.25 dB benefit from Add/Drop of all neighbors every 2 spans
More frequent add/drop only produces incremental improvement (0.25dB)
11. IEEE Photonics Conference 11 2014, paper TuF1.4
Nonlinear OSNR Penalty results
• Pre-dispersion on add signals greatly reduces nonlinear benefit
Higher input CD degrades NL tolerance, esp. on NZ-DSF [1,5,6]
12. IEEE Photonics Conference 12 2014, paper TuF1.4
• Nonlinear benefit from frequent add/drop up to 1.25 dB shown
for add/drop of all neighbors every 2 spans
• Much of the add/drop nonlinear benefit is due to reduced PAPR
when add signals have zero initial CD
• Topics for further study
• Behavior with combined nonlinearity and optical filtering
• Filtering penalty will at least partially offset nonlinear benefit?
• Behavior with other fiber types besides NZ-DSF
• Less impact from pre-dispersion over higher-dispersion fiber? (e.g. SSMF)
• Other modulation formats
• Mixed QPSK-OOK networks?
• Next-gen 16QAM/8QAM?
Conclusions
14. IEEE Photonics Conference 14 2014, paper TuF1.4
• [1] P. Poggiolini, G. Bosco, A. Carena, V. Curri, Y. Jiang, and F. Forghieri, “The GN-Model of Fiber Non-
Linear Propagation and its Applications,” J. Lightwave Technol. 32(4), pp. 694–721, February 2014.
• [2] T. Zami, A. Morea, and N. Brogard, “Impact of routing on the transmission performance in a
partially transparent optical network,” Proc. OFC/NFOEC, paper JThA50 (2008).
• [3] T. Zami, P. Henri, L. Lorcy, and C. Simonneau, “Impact of the optical routing on the transmission
in transparent networks,” Proc. ECOC, paper 1.5.2 (2009).
• [4] Y. Ye, G. Goeger, E. Zhou, S. Zhang, and X. Xu, “Interplay of Filtering and Nonlinear Transmission
in Coherent Uncompensated DWDM System,” Proc. OFC/NFOEC, paper OM3B.4 (2013).
• [5] F. Vacondio, O. Rival, C. Simonneau, E. Grellier, A. Bononi, L. Lorcy, J.-C. Antona, and S. Bigo,
“On nonlinear distortions of highly dispersive optical coherent sytsems,” Opt. Express 20(2), p. 1022-
1032, Jan. 2012.
• [6] X. Liu and S. Chandrasekhar, “Experimental Study of the Impact of Dispersion on PDM-QPSK and
PDM-16QAM Performance in Inhomogeneous Fiber Transmission,” Proc. ECOC, paper P.4.17 (2013).
• [7] S. Searcy and S. Tibuleac, “Impact of Channel Add/Drop on Nonlinear Performance in
Uncompensated 100G Coherent Systems,” submitted to OFC 2015.
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