Abstract
We investigate the performance of carrier phase estimation (CPE) and digital backward propagation (DBP) in compensating fiber nonlinearity for 224Gbps PM-4QAM and PM-16QAM coherent systems. In the presence of CPE, the number of DBP steps can be reduced.
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