Fast and blind chromatic dispersion estimation with one sample per symbol

Abstract

We propose a fast and blind chromatic dispersion (CD) estimation method by one sample per symbol after coherent detection. The CD estimation process is non-data aided, without the iterative scanning to obtain the CD values. Moreover, we identify that the proposed CD estimation method is transparent to the used modulation format and robust to the transmission impairments, including amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noise and fiber nonlinearity. When the 35-GBaud DP-16QAM signal with a roll-off factor of 0.1 is transmitted over standard single mode fiber (SSMF) with a range from 320-km to 560-km, the error of CD estimation is less than 150-ps/nm under the condition of 8192 symbols used.