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The evolution of Internet of Things technologies is driven by four key demands: ultra-low power consumption, high spectral efficiency, reduced implementation cost, and support for massive connectivity. To address these challenges, this…
In this paper, a rate adaptive geometric constellation shaping (GCS) scheme which is fully backward-compatible with existing state of the art bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) systems is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The…
Long-distance quantum optical communications usually require efficient wave-mixing processes to convert the wavelengths of single photons. Many quantum applications based on electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) have been proposed…
This paper presents analytical results on longitudinal power profile estimation (PPE) methods, which visualize signal power evolution in optical fibers at a coherent receiver. The PPE can be formulated as an inverse problem of the nonlinear…
This paper proposes a general optimization framework to improve the spectral and energy efficiency (EE) of ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) simultaneous-transfer-and-receive (STAR) reconfigurable intelligent surface…
Optimizing modulation and detection strategies for a given channel is critical to maximize the throughput of a communication system. Such an optimization can be easily carried out analytically for channels that admit closed-form analytical…
In this paper, we propose a fixed-complexity sphere encoder (FSE) for multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO) systems. The proposed FSE accomplishes a scalable tradeoff between performance and complexity. Also, because it has a parallel tree-search…
We demonstrate wavelength conversion of QAM signals including 32GBd QPSK and 10GBd 16QAM in a 50cm long high index doped glass spiral waveguide. The quality of the generated idlers over a 10nm bandwidth is sufficient to achieve a BER…
Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) is considered an innovative technology in sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks, where utilizing orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) communication signals for sensing provides a…
This paper proposes a new method for constructing multidimensional signal constellations (SC), referred to as SCOPT, for high-speed communication systems with enhanced energy efficiency (EE). In contrast to conventional approaches, the…
Few-mode multi-core fiber (FM-MCF) based Space-Division Multiplexing (SDM) systems possess the potential to maximize the number of multiplexed spatial channels per fiber by harnessing both the space (fiber cores) and mode (optical mode per…
Electromagnetic skins (EMSs) are recognized for enhancing communication performance, spanning from coverage to capacity. While much of the scientific literature focuses on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces that dynamically adjust phase…
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have shown the potential to improve signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) related coverage, especially at high-frequency communications. However, assessing electromagnetic field exposure…
We present an autoregressive end-to-end learning approach for probabilistic shaping on nonlinear fiber channels. Our proposed scheme learns the joint symbol distribution and provides a 0.3-bits/2D achievable information rate gain over an…
The effect of decreasing the kurtosis of channel inputs is investigated for the first time with an algorithmic shaping implementation. No significant gains in decoding performance are observed for multi-span systems, while an increase in…
The performance of optical fiber systems based on nonlinear frequency-division multiplexing (NFDM) or on more conventional transmission techniques is compared through numerical simulations. Some critical issues affecting NFDM…
A novel design procedure for practical hierarchical distribution matchers (HiDMs) in probabilistically shaped constellation systems is presented. The proposed approach enables the determination of optimal parameters for any target…
Probabilistic shaping for intensity modulation and direct detection (IM/DD) links is discussed and a peak power constraint determined by the limited modulation extinction ratio (ER) of optical modulators is introduced. The input…
Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signals with rectangularly windowed pulses exhibit low spectral confinement. Two approaches usually referred to as pulse-shaping and active interference cancellation (AIC) are classically…
Existing fixed-length feedback communication schemes are either specialized to particular channels (Schalkwijk--Kailath, Horstein), or apply to general channels but either have high coding complexity (block feedback schemes) or are…