applied sciences Advanced DSP Techniques for High-Capacity and Energy-Efficient Optical Fiber Communications Edited by Zhongqi Pan and Yang Yue Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Applied Sciences www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci Advanced DSP Techniques for High-Capacity and Energy-Efficient Optical Fiber Communications Advanced DSP Techniques for High-Capacity and Energy-Efficient Optical Fiber Communications SpecialIssueEditors ZhongqiPan YangYue MDPI•Basel•Beijing•Wuhan•Barcelona•Belgrade SpecialIssueEditors ZhongqiPan Yang Yue UniversityofLouisianaat Nankai University Lafayette China USA EditorialOffice MDPI St.Alban-Anlage66 4052Basel,Switzerland This is a reprint of articles from the Special Issue published online in the open access journal AppliedSciences(ISSN2076-3417)from2018to2019(availableat: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ applsci/specialissues/DSPOpticalFiberCommunication). 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Contents AbouttheSpecialIssueEditors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii ZhongqiPanandYangYue Special Issue on Advanced DSP Techniques for High-Capacity and Energy-Efficient Optical FiberCommunications Reprintedfrom:Appl.Sci.2019,9,4470,doi:10.3390/app9204470. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 JianZhao,YapingLiuandTianhuaXu AdvancedDSPforCoherentOpticalFiberCommunication Reprintedfrom:Appl.Sci.2019,9,4192,doi:10.3390/app9194192. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 YiWeng,JunyiWangandZhongqiPan RecentAdvancesinDSPTechniquesforModeDivisionMultiplexingOpticalNetworkswith MIMOEqualization:AReview Reprintedfrom:Appl.Sci.2019,9,1178,doi:10.3390/app9061178. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 HonghangZhou,YanLi,YuyangLiu,LeiYue,ChaoGao,WeiLi,JifangQiu,HongxiangGuo, XiaobinHong,YongZuoandJianWu RecentAdvancesinEqualizationTechnologiesforShort-ReachOpticalLinksBasedonPAM4 Modulation:AReview Reprintedfrom:Appl.Sci.2019,9,2342,doi:10.3390/app9112342. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Yang Yue, Qiang Wang and Jon Anderson Experimental Investigation of 400 Gb/s Data Center Interconnect Using Unamplified High-Baud-Rate and High-Order QAM Single-Carrier Signal Reprintedfrom:Appl.Sci.2019,9,2455,doi:10.3390/app9122455. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 QiangWang,YangYueandJonAnderson CompensationofLimitedBandwidthandNonlinearityforCoherentTransponder Reprintedfrom:Appl.Sci.2019,9,1758,doi:10.3390/app9091758. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 ArneJosten,BenediktBaeuerle,RomainBonjour,WolfgangHeniandJuergLeuthold OpticalTransmitterswithoutDriverAmplifiers—OptimalOperationConditions Reprintedfrom:Appl.Sci.2018,8,1652,doi:10.3390/app8091652. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Ting Jiang, Lin Zhao, Hongzhan Liu, Dongmei Deng, Aiping Luo, Zhongchao Wei and XiangboYang Performance Improvement for Mixed RF–FSO Communication System by Adopting Hybrid SubcarrierIntensityModulation Reprintedfrom:Appl.Sci.2019,9,3724,doi:10.3390/app9183724. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 YanLi,QuanyanNing,LeiYue,HonghangZhou,ChaoGao,YuyangLiu,JifangQiu,WeiLi, XiaobinHongandJianWu Post-FECPerformanceofPilot-AidedCarrierPhaseEstimationoverCycleSlip Reprintedfrom:Appl.Sci.2019,9,2749,doi:10.3390/app9132749. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 ChunShan,Xiao-pingWu,YanLiu,JunCaiandJian-zhenLuo IBPBasedCachingStrategyinD2D Reprintedfrom:Appl.Sci.2019,9,2416,doi:10.3390/app9122416. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 v About the Special Issue Editors Zhongqi Pan received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tsinghua University, China, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, all in electrical engineering. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He also holds BORSF Endowed Professorship in Electrical Engineering II, and BellSouth/BoRSF Endowed Professorship in Telecommunications. Dr. Pan’s research is in the area of photonics, including photonic devices, fiber communications, wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) technologies, optical performance monitoring, coherent optical communications, space-division multiplexing (SDM) technologies, and fiber-sensor technologies. He has authored/co-authored 160 publications, including five book chapters and >20 invited presentations/papers. He also has five U. S. patents and one Chinese patent. Prof. Pan is an OSA and IEEE senior member. Yang Yue received B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and optics from Nankai University, Tianjin, China, in 2004 and 2007, respectively. He received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, in 2012. He is a Professor with the Institute of Modern Optics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China. Dr. Yue’s current research interests include intelligent photonics, optical communications and networking, optical interconnect, detection, imaging, and display technology. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed journal papers and conference proceedings, two edited books, one book chapter, >10 invited papers, >30 issued or pending patents, and >60 invited presentations. vii applied sciences Editorial Special Issue on Advanced DSP Techniques for ffi High-Capacity and Energy-E cient Optical Fiber Communications ZhongqiPan1andYangYue2,* 1 DepartmentofElectricalandComputerEngineering,UniversityofLouisianaatLafayette, Lafayette,LA70504,USA;[email protected] 2 InstituteofModernOptics,NankaiUniversity,Tianjin300350,China * Correspondence:[email protected];Tel.:+86-22-8535-8565 Received:8October2019;Accepted:18October2019;Published:22October2019 1.Introduction TherapidproliferationoftheInternethasbeendrivingcommunicationnetworkscloserandcloser totheirlimits,whileavailablebandwidthisdisappearingduetoever-increasingnetworkloads.Inthe pastdecade,opticalfibercommunicationtechnologyhasincreasedtheperfiberdataratefrom10Tb/s toover10Pb/s[1]. Amajorexplosioncameafterthematurityofcoherentdetectionandadvanced digitalsignalprocessing(DSP),whichenabledtheachievementofhighspectralandenergyefficiency. Itisdifficulttooverstatetheimpactthatopticalcoherenttechnologieshavehadinbothgeneratingand supportingtherevolutionofopticalcommunicationsoverthelast10years. Asoneofthekeyenablersinthecoherentevolutionoffibercommunicationsystems,DSPhas madetheinnovationofhigh-ordermodulationformatspossibleinincreasingspectral/powerefficiency. DSPcanalsocompensatealmostalllinearandnonlineardistortions,andimprovenoisetolerancein fibersystems. Itprovidesapromisingelectricalsolutionformanyproblemsintheopticaldomain. Forexample,troublesomechannelimpairmentsduetochromaticdispersion(CD)andpolarization modedispersion(PMD)canbealmostfullycompensatedthroughDSP-basedequalizers.Furthermore, DSPhasthepotentialtoeasetherequirementsformanyopticalcomponentsandcaneventakethe placeofsomeopticalfunctions. 2.SpecialIssuePapers InthisSpecialIssue,wepresentninecarefullyselectedpapers,includingthreereviewarticlesand sixcontributedpapers.ThesepaperscoveradvancedDSPtechniquesforlong-distance,short-reach applications,includingsystemsthatuseconventionalsinglemodefibers(SMFs)andthosebasedon space-divisionmultiplexing(SDM)fibers,aswellaslinksthatusefree-spacewirelesstransmission. Thefollowingsummarizesthesepapers: • AdvancedDSPforCoherentOpticalFiberCommunication[2] ThispaperprovidesanoverviewofrecentprogressonadvancedDSPtechniquesforhigh-capacity, long-haul,coherentopticalfibertransmissionsystems.Theauthorsfirstintroducetheprincipleand schemeofcoherentdetectiontoexplainwhyDSPcancompensatefortransmissionimpairments. Then,thecorrespondingtechniquesfornonlinearitycompensation,frequency-domainequalization (FDE),SDM,andmachinelearning(ML)arediscussed.Relevanttechniquesareanalyzed,and representationalresultsandexperimentalverificationsaredemonstratedaswell.Thispaperalso providesabriefconclusionandfutureperspectivesattheend. • RecentAdvancesinDSPTechniquesforModeDivisionMultiplexingOpticalNetworkswith MIMOEqualization:AReview[3] Appl.Sci.2019,9,4470;doi:10.3390/app9204470 1 www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci