PMID- 24216860 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20140710 LR - 20181023 IS - 1094-4087 (Electronic) IS - 1094-4087 (Linking) VI - 21 IP - 22 DP - 2013 Nov 4 TI - On nonlinearly-induced noise in single-channel optical links with digital backpropagation. PG - 26376-86 LID - 10.1364/OE.21.026376 [doi] AB - In this paper, we investigate the performance limits of electronic chromatic dispersion compensation (EDC) and digital backpropagation (DBP) for a single-channel non-dispersion-managed fiber-optical link. A known analytical method to derive the performance of the system with EDC is extended to derive a first-order approximation for the performance of the system with DBP. In contrast to the cubic growth of the variance of the nonlinear noise-like interference, often called nonlinear noise, with input power for EDC, a quadratic growth is observed with DBP using this approximation. Finally, we provide numerical results to verify the accuracy of the proposed approach and compare it with existing analytical models. FAU - Beygi, Lotfollah AU - Beygi L FAU - Irukulapati, Naga V AU - Irukulapati NV FAU - Agrell, Erik AU - Agrell E FAU - Johannisson, Pontus AU - Johannisson P FAU - Karlsson, Magnus AU - Karlsson M FAU - Wymeersch, Henk AU - Wymeersch H FAU - Serena, Paolo AU - Serena P FAU - Bononi, Alberto AU - Bononi A LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - United States TA - Opt Express JT - Optics express JID - 101137103 EDAT- 2013/11/13 06:00 MHDA- 2013/11/13 06:01 CRDT- 2013/11/13 06:00 PHST- 2013/11/13 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/11/13 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2013/11/13 06:01 [medline] AID - 270366 [pii] AID - 10.1364/OE.21.026376 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Opt Express. 2013 Nov 4;21(22):26376-86. doi: 10.1364/OE.21.026376.