Learned Digital Back-Propagation for Dual-Polarization Dispersion Managed Systems
This work addresses signal degradation in optical fiber communication systems, offering incremental improvements for enhanced data transmission performance.
The paper tackles nonlinearity mitigation in WDM dual-polarization dispersion-managed systems by proposing learned digital back-propagation (LDBP), achieving Q-factor improvements of 1.8 dB over linear equalization and 1.2 dB over a variant of DBP adapted to such systems.
Digital back-propagation (DBP) and learned DBP (LDBP) are proposed for nonlinearity mitigation in WDM dual-polarization dispersion-managed systems. LDBP achieves Q-factor improvement of 1.8 dB and 1.2 dB, respectively, over linear equalization and a variant of DBP adapted to DM systems.