Joint nonlinearity and chromatic dispersion pre-compensation for coherent optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing systems

This paper introduces a joint nonlinearity and chromatic dispersion pre-compensation method for coherent optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing systems.The research results show that this method can reduce the walk-off effect and can therefore equalize the nonlinear impairments effectively.Compared with the only other existing nonlinearity pre-compensation method,the joint nonlinearity and chromatic dispersion pre-compensation method is not only suitable for low-dispersion optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing system,but also effective for high-dispersion optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing transmission system with higher input power but without optical dispersion compensation.The suggested solution does not increase computation complexity compared with only nonlinearity pre-compensation method.For 40 Gbit/s coherent optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing 20×80 km standard single-mode fibre system,the suggested method can improve the nonlinear threshold(for Q > 10 dB) about 2.7,1.2 and 1.0 dB,and the maximum Q factor about 1.2,0.4 and 0.3 dB,for 2,8 and 16 ps/(nm·km) dispersion coefficients.