Recent advances in coherent optical communication

    Authors

    G. F. Li

    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Adv. Opt. Photonics

    Keywords

    Optics

    Abstract

    Recent progress in coherent optical communication, a field revived by advances in digital signal processing (DSP), is reviewed. DSP-based phase and polarization management techniques make coherent detection robust and practical. With coherent detection, the complex field of the received signal is fully recovered, allowing compensation of linear impairments including chromatic dispersion and polarization-mode dispersion using digital filters. In addition, fiber nonlinearities can also be compensated by using backward propagation in the digital domain. (C) 2009 Optical Society of America

    Journal Title

    Advances in Optics and Photonics

    Volume

    1

    Issue/Number

    2

    Publication Date

    1-1-2009

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    279

    Last Page

    307

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000208844200002

    ISSN

    1943-8206

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