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On the Bit Error Rate Fluctuation Induced by Multipath Interference in the Coherent Regime for Intra Data Center Applications

Information Theory 2026-03-24 v1 Signal Processing math.IT

Abstract

We theoretically explain how multipath interference resizes PAM-4 constellation in the coherent regime and thus increases bit error rate fluctuation in intra data centers for the first time.

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@article{arxiv.2603.20995,
  title  = {On the Bit Error Rate Fluctuation Induced by Multipath Interference in the Coherent Regime for Intra Data Center Applications},
  author = {Wing-Chau Ng and Scott Yam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.20995},
  year   = {2026}
}

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Submitted to Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2026 on October 21st, 2025