Equalization in dispersion-managed systems using learned digital back-propagation
Pedro, J. M.
; Costa, N.
Optics Continuum Vol. 2, Nº 10, pp. 2088 - 2105, October, 2023.
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ISSN (online): 2770-0208
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Digital Object Identifier: 10.1364/OPTCON.497117
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the use of the learned digital back-propagation (LDBP) for equalizing dual-polarization fiber-optic transmission in dispersion-managed (DM) links. LDBP is a deep neural network that optimizes the parameters of DBP using the stochastic gradient descent. We evaluate DBP and LDBP in a simulated WDM dual-polarization fiber transmission system operating at 32 Gbaud/s per channel, with a dispersion map designed for a 28 × 72 km link with 15% residual dispersion. Our results show that in single-channel transmission, LDBP achieves an effective signal-to-noise ratio improvement of 6.3 dB and 2.5 dB using DP-16-QAM format, respectively, over linear equalization and DBP. In WDM transmission, the corresponding Q-factor gains are 1.1 dB and 0.4 dB, respectively. Additionally, we conduct a complexity analysis, which reveals that a frequency-domain implementation of LDBP and DBP is more favorable in terms of complexity than the time-domain implementation. These findings demonstrate the effectiveness of LDBP in mitigating the nonlinear effects in DM fiber-optic transmission systems.