Abstract

Nonlinearity-induced phase noise has become a major obstacle in long-haul coherent fiber-optic communication systems. Such phase noise has been shown to be signal dependent, and correlated over time. We propose a code-aided expectation-maximization algorithm to mitigate such nonlinear phase noise, iteratively utilizing both the time correlation of the nonlinearity-induced impairments and a soft-decision error-control code. Simulation and experimental results show that on a dual-polarization wavelength-division-multiplexed 16 QAM system, launch-power tolerance can be increased by ${1.5}$ dB, and the optical signal-to-noise ratio requirement can be relaxed by ${0.3}$ dB to achieve the same ${Q^2}$ -factor.

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