Nonlinear Blind Equalization for 16-QAM Coherent Optical OFDM using Support Vector Machines
24 June 2016
This work was partly performed at Aston University during my PhD. A novel blind nonlinear equalizer (BNLE) based on support vector machines is experimentally demonstrated for ~41-Gb/s 16-QAM CO-OFDM at 2000 km. At 2 dBm launch power BNLE reduces the fiber nonlinearity penalty by ~1 dB compared to Volterra-based NLE
