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Fiber Nonlinearity Compensation by Digital Backpropagation of an Entire 1.2-Tb/s Superchannel Using a Full-Field Spectrally-Sliced Receiver

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2013

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We receive the full optical field of a 176-GHz wide, 1.2-Tb/s PDM-16QAM superchannel after 960-km TWRS using a spectrally-sliced coherent receiver. Simultaneous compensation of SPM and XPM with digital backpropagation enables 1 dB of Q-factor improvement.