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Detector nonlinearity is an important factor limiting the maximal power and hence the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in dual-comb interferometry. To increase the SNR without overwhelming averaging time, specific experimental conditions must be…
We propose Four-Dimensional (4D) energy limit enumerative sphere shaping (ESS) of $M$-QAM signaling to minimize rate loss and improve the transmission performance over non-linear WDM optical-fiber systems. Simulation results show that the…
Probabilistic shaping (PS) has been widely studied and applied to optical fiber communications. The encoder of PS expends the number of bit slots and controls the probability distribution of channel input symbols. Not only studies focused…
Photodetector nonlinearity, the main limiting factor in terms of optical power in the detection chain, is corrected to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of a short-time measurement in dual-comb spectroscopy. An iterative correction…
Constellation shaping is reviewed and revised for a WDM unrepeated system with high spectral efficiency. It is shown that for a constellation size-constrained system, previous optimization techniques can be highly sub-optimal, and a…
The rate flexibility and probabilistic shaping gain of $4$-dimensional signaling is experimentally tested for short-reach, unrepeated transmission. A rate granularity of 0.5 bits/QAM symbol is achieved with a distribution matcher based on a…
Sub-wavelength diameter tapered optical fibers surrounded by rubidium vapor can undergo a substantial decrease in transmission at high atomic densities due to the accumulation of rubidium atoms on the surface of the fiber. Here we…
Bipolar modulation increases the achievable information rate of communication links with direct-detection receivers. This paper optimizes bipolar transmission with a modulator bias offset for short-reach fiber links. A neural network…
We introduce low complexity machine learning based approach for mitigating nonlinear impairments in optical fiber communications systems. The immense intricacy of the problem calls for the development of "smart" methodology, simplifying the…
Diffraction-free Bessel beams have attracted major interest because of their stability even in regimes of nonlinear propagation and filamentation. However, Kerr nonlinear couplings are known to induce significant longitudinal intensity…
Constellation shaping is a well-established method to improve upon a regular quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM). It is known that the gain achieved by any shaping method for an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel is…
Multimode fibers provide a promising platform for realizing high-power laser amplifiers with suppressed nonlinearities and instabilities. The potential degradation of optical beam quality has been a major concern for highly multimode fiber…
We use a supervised machine-learning model based on a neural network to predict the temporal and spectral intensity profiles of the pulses that form upon nonlinear propagation in optical fibers with both normal and anomalous second-order…
Simple fiber optic communication systems can be implemented using energy modulation of isolated time-limited pulses. Fundamental solitons are one possible solution for such pulses which offer a fundamental advantage: their shape is not…
The ever-increasing demand for processing data with larger machine learning models requires more efficient hardware solutions due to limitations such as power dissipation and scalability. Optics is a promising contender for providing lower…
We investigate nonlinear transmission in a layered structure consisting of a slab of positive index material (PIM) with Kerr-type nonlinearity and a sub-wavelength layer of linear negative index material (NIM) sandwiched between…
Nonlinear signal distortions are one of the primary factors limiting the capacity and reach of optical transmission systems. Currently, several approaches exist for compensating nonlinear distortions, but for practical implementation,…
Nonlinear interference models for dual-polarization 4D (DP-4D) modulation have only been used so far to predict signal-signal nonlinear interference. We show that including the signal-noise term in the prediction of the effective…
In this thesis the creation of nonlinear interference noise (NLIN) in the context of impairment aware flexible optical networks is investigated to estimate transmission quality. In particular, the nonlinear interference of neighboring…
Linear and nonlinear distortions in optical communication signals are equalized using an integrated feed-forward Photonic Neural Network (PNN). The PNN is based on a linear stage made of an 8-tap Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filter,…