Optical phase conjugation in phase-modulated transmission systems: experimental comparison of different nonlinearity-compensation methods

Authors

Paolo Minzioni, Vincenzo Pusino, Ilaria Cristiani, Lucia Marazzi, Mario Martinelli, Carsten Langrock, M. M. Fejer, and Vittorio Degiorgio

Abstract

We experimentally compare the effectiveness of three different optical-phase-conjugation-based nonlinearity-compensation strategies on a transmission system employing phase-modulated signals, and hence affected by the Gordon-Mollenauer effect. We demonstrate that it is possible to obtain significant nonlinearity compensation, but that no improvement is obtained using configurations specifically aimed at the compensation of the nonlinear phase noise.

Journal

Optics Express

Volume

18

Number

17

Date

08/2010
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