Nonlinear Mitigation with TL-NN-NLC in Coherent Optical Fiber Communications

• DOI: 10.1364/acpc.2020.m4a.321
• Publication Date: 2021-02-10T04:33:13Z
• Authors: Wanting Zhang; Taowei Jin; Tao Xu; Jing Zhang; Kun Qiu
• Keywords: Q factor; Polarization-division multiplexing; QAM

We propose a low complexity transfer-learning assisted neural-network nonlinear compensation (TL-NN- NLC) scheme. The experimental results show 1.3-dB quality factor (Q-factor) improvement for 128 Gb/s polarization multiplexed (PM) 16-QAM coherent optical transmission over 800-km SSMF.