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Over-the-fiber Digital Predistortion Using Reinforcement Learning

Signal Processing 2021-06-10 v1

Abstract

We demonstrate, for the first time, experimental over-the-fiber training of transmitter neural networks (NNs) using reinforcement learning. Optical back-to-back training of a novel NN-based digital predistorter outperforms arcsine-based predistortion with up to 60\% bit-error-rate reduction.

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@article{arxiv.2106.04934,
  title  = {Over-the-fiber Digital Predistortion Using Reinforcement Learning},
  author = {Jinxiang Song and Zonglong He and Christian Häger and Magnus Karlsson and Alexandre Graell i Amat and Henk Wymeersch and Jochen Schröder},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.04934},
  year   = {2021}
}
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