Transmission of a 112-Gbit/s 16-QAM over a 1440-km SSMF with parallel Kramers-Kronig receivers enabled by an overlap approach and bandwidth compensation.

We investigate the parallelized performance of the conventional Kramers-Kronig (KK) and without the digital up-sampling KK (WDU-KK) receivers in a 112-Gbit/s 16-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (16-QAM) system over a 1440-km standard single-mode fiber (SSMF). A joint overlap approach and bandwidth compensation filter (OLA-BC) architecture is presented to mitigate the edge effect caused by the Hilbert transform and the Gibbs phenomenon induced by the FIR filter, respectively. Moreover, the computational complexity of the OLA-BC based parallelized KK/WDU-KK receiver is also discussed. Parallelized KK/WDU-KK receivers based on the presented OLA-BC architecture can effectively mitigate the edge effect and the Gibbs phenomenon together with more than two orders of magnitude improvement in terms of bit-error-ratio (BER) compared with parallelized KK/WDU-KK receivers without OLA-BC receivers in back-to-back (B2B) case. Finally, we successfully transmit the 16-QAM signals over 960-km SSMF with a BER lower than 7% hard-decision forward error correction (HD-FEC) threshold (3.8 × 10) and 1440-km SSMF with a BER lower than 20% soft-decision FEC (SD-FEC) threshold (2 × 10).