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First Experimental Demonstration of Probabilistic Enumerative Sphere Shaping in Optical Fiber Communications

Signal Processing 2020-06-05 v2 Information Theory math.IT

Abstract

We transmit probabilistic enumerative sphere shaped dual-polarization 64-QAM at 350Gbit/s/channel over 1610km SSMF using a short blocklength of 200. A reach increase of 15% over constant composition distribution matching with identical blocklength is demonstrated.

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@article{arxiv.1908.00453,
  title  = {First Experimental Demonstration of Probabilistic Enumerative Sphere Shaping in Optical Fiber Communications},
  author = {Sebastiaan Goossens and Sjoerd van der Heide and Menno van den Hout and Abdelkerim Amari and Yunus Can Gültekin and Olga Vassilieva and Inwoong Kim and Tadashi Ikeuchi and Frans M. J. Willems and Alex Alvarado and Chigo Okonkwo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.00453},
  year   = {2020}
}