Joint Fiber and SOA Impairment Compensation Using Digital Backward Propagation

An electronic scheme for joint postcompensation of fiber and semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) impairments based on coherent detection and digital backward propagation is proposed and demonstrated. A 10-GBd amplitude-phase-modulated transmission system was demonstrated experimentally using semiconductor optical amplification. The Q-factor of the received signal was improved by 5 dB with simultaneous fiber and SOA impairment compensation in the electrical domain.