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Optics Express Feature Announcement

Nonlinearity Mitigation for Coherent Transmission Systems

Submission Opens:1 October 2016

Submission Deadline: 14 November 2016

This feature issue of Optics Express seeks to explore the area of nonlinearity mitigation for fiber optic links.

Fiber nonlinearity remains one of the most serious limiting factors in long-haul fiber optic transmission reach and capacity. Determining approaches to reducing nonlinear distortions so as to approach the Shannon limit are high on the agenda in the fiber communication community.

The emergence of full E-field encoding at the transmitter, coherent receivers, and high-speed digital signal processing, as well as refined optics such as comb sources and low-linewidth lasers, are opening up new possibilities for enabling transmission with unprecedented nonlinear tolerance. Researching both optical and electronic schemes are a focus of many groups in academia and industry globally. This feature issue would be a time stamp of the current activity in this important field.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  • Digital schemes, e.g., nonlinear backpropagation or nonlinear predistortion
  • Optical schemes, e.g., phase conjugation, phase sensitive amplification, twin-beam transmission
  • Nonlinearity-tolerant modulation and transmission schemes
  • Joint signal processing for Nyquist WDM scenarios (multichannel and polarization mode dispersion-induced limitations)

Manuscripts must be prepared according to the usual standards for submission to Optics Express and must be uploaded through OSA's electronic submission system, specifying from the drop-down menu that the manuscript is for the Feature Issue on Nonlinearity Mitigation for Coherent Transmission Systems.

All papers need to present original, previously unpublished work, and will be subject to the normal standards and peer-review process of the journals. The standard Optics Express publication charges will apply to all published articles.

Feature Issue Editors

Nikola Alic, University of California, San Diego, USA
Magnus Karlsson, Chalmers University, Sweden
Antonio Mecozzi, University L'Aquila, Italy
Chandrasekhar Sethumadhavan, Nokia Bell Labs, USA