Performance against implementation of digital backpropagation for high-speed coherent optical systems

Abstract

The trade-off between transmission performance and hardware implementation in application-specific integrated circuits of digital backpropagation (DBP) in coherent 32 GBd polarisation-division multiplexing 16 quadrature amplitude modulation is analysed. The reach is optimised for different DBP implementations under constraints of 16 and 28 nm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology digital signal processing (DSP) area.