Complex-Valued Kernel-based Phase and Amplitude Distortion Compensation in Parametrically Amplified Optical Links

Abstract: We develop a complex-valued kernel-adaptive-filtering based method for phase and amplitude distortion compensation in cascaded fibre-optical parametric amplifier (FOPA) links. Our algorithm predicts and cancels both distortions induced by pump-phase modulation across all amplification stages, achieving more than an order of magnitude improvement in BER.