We demonstrate the effectiveness of a novel phase-noise-tolerant, variational-autoencoder-based equalization scheme for space-division-multiplexed (SDM) transmission in an experiment over 150km of randomly-coupled multi-core fibers.
@article{arxiv.2509.14072,
title = {Novel Phase-Noise-Tolerant Variational-Autoencoder-Based Equalization Suitable for Space-Division-Multiplexed Transmission},
author = {Vincent Lauinger and Lennart Schmitz and Patrick Matalla and Andrej Rode and Sebastian Randel and Laurent Schmalen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.14072},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
Accepted and to be presented at the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) 2025