Abstract

We present an experimental investigation of different Kerr nonlinearity mitigation schemes in a 2-span dispersion–compensated link of 160–km length for 4 × 28–GBd single–polarization 16–QAM signal transmission. We consider optical phase conjugation (OPC) based on mid–link spectral inversion, digital backpropagation (DBP), and transmission of phase-conjugated twin-waves with either digital coherent superposition (DCS) or all–optical coherent superposition employing phase–sensitive amplification (PSA). The experiments are performed in a single–channel and a wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) scenario. For single–channel operation, phase-conjugated twin waves with DCS provided superior performance compared to all the other mitigation schemes with a maximum Q²–factor improvement of 1.7 dB compared to signal transmission without any nonlinearity mitigation. The DBP, however, showed a higher nonlinear threshold than all the other schemes in our experiments. In the WDM scenario, DBP showed worse performance than the other mitigation schemes whereas the DCS again provided a higher Q²–factor improvement than the other techniques with a maximum Q²–factor improvement of 1.9 dB. The PSA and the mid–link OPC showed similar nonlinearity mitigation performance both in single-channel and WDM scenarios.

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