Multiple-signal-joint-processing-based guard interval shortening method for a CS-NFDM system.

Aiming to further improve the spectral efficiency (SE) of a continuous spectrum modulated nonlinear frequency division multiplexing (CS-NFDM) system, we propose a novel ,to the best of our knowledge, multiple-signal-joint-processing (MSJP)-based guard interval (GI) shortening method. In this method, multiple NFDM time-domain signals are jointly processed as a whole to carry out nonlinear Fourier transform and inverse nonlinear Fourier transform (NFT-INFT) operations. These operations can fuse the multiple NFDM time-domain signals together, which is equivalent to the corresponding inverse process of a fiber transmission. Experimental results show that the normalized SE of the proposed method can reach 0.99 when approaching the limit value of 1 and obtain a 2.33 dB Q-factor improvement compared with the pre-dispersion compensation (PDC) method under the same GI of 0.03 ns in an 80 km SSMF transmission of a 46 GHz signal bandwidth. Furthermore, in comparison with the PDC method, the proposed method can achieve 32.86% normalized SE improvement in the 1120 km SSMF transmission of 32 GHz signal bandwidth under the SD-FEC of 2.4E-2.