Impairment mitigation in noncoherent optical transmission enabled with machine learning for intra-datacenter networks

Keisuke Ito; Masaki Niwa; Koh Ueda; Yojiro Mori; Hiroshi Hasegawa; Ken-ichi Sato

doi:10.1117/12.2253456

28 January 2017 Impairment mitigation in noncoherent optical transmission enabled with machine learning for intra-datacenter networks

Keisuke Ito, Masaki Niwa, Koh Ueda, Yojiro Mori, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Ken-ichi Sato

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Proceedings Volume 10131, Next-Generation Optical Networks for Data Centers and Short-Reach Links IV; 101310A (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2253456
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2017, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Ever-increasing intra-datacenter traffic will spur the introduction of high-baud rates and high-order modulation formats. Increasing symbol rates and modulation levels decreases tolerance against transmission impairment that includes chromatic dispersion. Transmission distance in warehouse-scale datacenters can be several kilometers, and then management of chromatic dispersion is necessary. Dispersion-compensating fibers are widely deployed in backbone networks, however, applying them in datacenters is not cost-effective since wavelength channels are coarsely multiplexed. In digital coherent systems, signal distortion due to chromatic dispersion can be resolved in digital domain; however, it will take long time before coherent systems can be introduced in datacenter networks because of their high cost. In this paper, we propose a novel impairment mitigation method employing machine learning. The proposed method is effective even after non-coherent detection and hence it can be applied to cost-sensitive intra-datacenter networks. The machine learns optimum symbol-decision criteria from a sequence of dispersed training signals, and it discriminates payload signals in accordance with the established decision criteria. With the scheme, the received signals can be demodulated in the presence of large chromatic dispersion. The transmission distance thus can be extended without relying on costly optical dispersion compensation. Since information of transmission links is not a priori required, the proposed scheme can easily be applied to any datacenter network. We conduct transmission experiments using 400-Gbps channels each of which comprises 8-subcarrier 28-Gbaud 4-ary pulse-amplitude-modulation (PAM-4) signals, and confirm the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

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Keisuke Ito, Masaki Niwa, Koh Ueda, Yojiro Mori, Hiroshi Hasegawa, and Ken-ichi Sato "Impairment mitigation in noncoherent optical transmission enabled with machine learning for intra-datacenter networks", Proc. SPIE 10131, Next-Generation Optical Networks for Data Centers and Short-Reach Links IV, 101310A (28 January 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2253456

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