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A Simplified Method for Optimising Geometrically Shaped Constellations of Higher Dimensionality

Information Theory 2023-07-12 v1 Signal Processing math.IT

Abstract

We introduce a simplified method for calculating the loss function for use in geometric shaping, allowing for the optimisation of high dimensional constellations. We design constellations up to 12D with 4096 points, with gains up to 0.31 dB compared to the state-of-the-art.

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@article{arxiv.2307.05179,
  title  = {A Simplified Method for Optimising Geometrically Shaped Constellations of Higher Dimensionality},
  author = {Kadir Gümüş and Bin Chen and Thomas Bradley and Chigo Okonkwo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.05179},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

This paper was accepted for the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) 2023, this version is a pre-print

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