Digital pre-compensation techniques enabling high-capacity bandwidth variable transponders

• DOI: 10.1016/j.optcom.2017.09.062
• Publication Date: 2017-10-28T17:00:15Z
• Authors: Antonio Napoli; Pablo Wilke Beren...; Talha Rahman; Ginni Khanna; Mahdi M. Mezghanni; Lennart Gardian; Emilio Riccardi; Anna Chiadò Piat; Stefano Calabrò; Stefanos Dris; André Richter; Johannes Karl Fis...; Bernd Sommerkorn-...; Bernhard Spinnler
• Keywords: Transceiver

Abstract Digital pre-compensation techniques are among the enablers for cost-efficient high-capacity transponders. In this paper we describe various methods to mitigate the impairments introduced by state-of-the-art components within modern optical transceivers. Numerical and experimental results validate their performance and benefits.