TR2021-109

Experimental Analysis of Mismatched Soft-Demapping for Probabilistic Shaping in Short-Reach Nonlinear Transmission

    •  Skvortcov, P., Millar, D.S., Phillips, I., Forysiak, W., Koike-Akino, T., Kojima, K., Parsons, K., "Experimental Analysis of Mismatched Soft-Demapping for Probabilistic Shaping in Short-Reach Nonlinear Transmission", European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC), DOI: 10.1109/​ECOC52684.2021.9605820, September 2021.
      BibTeX TR2021-109 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Skvortcov2021sep,
      • author = {Skvortcov, Pavel and Millar, David S. and Phillips, Ian and Forysiak, Wladek and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Kojima, Keisuke and Parsons, Kieran},
      • title = {Experimental Analysis of Mismatched Soft-Demapping for Probabilistic Shaping in Short-Reach Nonlinear Transmission},
      • booktitle = {European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC)},
      • year = 2021,
      • month = sep,
      • publisher = {IEEE},
      • doi = {10.1109/ECOC52684.2021.9605820},
      • isbn = {978-1-6654-3868-1},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2021-109}
      • }
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    Communications, Optimization, Signal Processing

Abstract:

The impact of dimensionality of soft-demappers is investigated for probabilistic shaping in systems with short-memory correlated nonlinearities. Simple instantaneous nonlinearity compensation is proposed, significantly improving the performance of a low-complexity 1D demapper.