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We consider the communication channel given by a fiber optical transmission line. We develop a method to perturbatively calculate the information capacity of a nonlinear channel, given the corresponding evolution equation. Using this…
By taking advantage of the temporal correlations of the nonlinear phase noise in WDM systems we show that the capacity of a nonlinear fiber link is notably higher than what is currently assumed. This advantage is translated into the…
Current research efforts are focussed on overcoming the apparent limits of communication in single mode optical fibre resulting from distortion due to fibre nonlinearity. It has been experimentally demonstrated that this Kerr nonlinearity…
An upper bound to the information capacity of a wavelength-division multi- plexed optical fiber communication system is derived in a model incorporating the nonlinear propagation effects of cross-phase modulation (XPM). This work is based…
Modern computing and data storage systems increasingly rely on parallel architectures where processing and storage load is distributed within a cluster of nodes. The necessity for high-bandwidth data links has made optical communication a…
A comment on a recent Letter on the information capacity of nonlinear channels.
The amount of information transmissible through a communications channel is determined by the noise characteristics of the channel and by the quantities of available transmission resources. In classical information theory, the amount of…
We study the statistics of optical data transmission in a noisy nonlinear fiber channel with a weak dispersion management and zero average dispersion. Applying path integral methods we have found exactly the probability density functions of…
Since Shannon proved that Gaussian distribution is the optimum for a linear channel with additive white Gaussian noise and he calculated the corresponding channel capacity, it remains the most applied distribution in optical communications…
The nonlinear Shannon capacity limit has been identified as the fundamental barrier to the maximum rate of transmitted information in optical communications. In long-haul high-bandwidth optical networks, this limit is mainly attributed to…
It is shown that signal energy is the only available degree-of-freedom (DOF) for fiber-optic transmission as the input power tends to infinity. With $n$ signal DOFs at the input, $n-1$ DOFs are asymptotically lost to signal-noise…
A novel technique to optimize the input distribution and compute a lower bound for the capacity of the nonlinear optical fiber channel is proposed. The technique improves previous bounds obtained with the additive white Gaussian noise…
The explosion of demand for ultra-high information transmission rates over the last decade has necessitated the usage of increasingly high light intensities for fiber optical transmissions. As a result, the fiber non-linearities need to be…
A fiber optic channel is modeled in a variety of ways; from the simple additive white complex Gaussian noise model, to models that incorporate memory in the channel. Because of Kerr nonlinearity, a simple model is not a good approximation…
The potential benefits of extending the optical fibre transmission bandwidth are studied. Even in the presence of Kerr nonlinearity and inter-channel stimulated Raman scattering, increasing the usable optical fibre bandwidth appears to be…
A wide variety of communication channels employ the quantized electromagnetic field to convey information. Their communication capacity crucially depends on losses associated to spatial characteristics of the channel such as diffraction and…
There is a fundamental limit on the capacity of fibre optical communication system (Shannon Limit). This limit can be potentially overcome via using Nonlinear Frequency Division Multiplexing. Dealing with noises in these systems is one of…
The channel capacity of a nonlinear, dispersive fiber-optic link is revisited. To this end, the popular Gaussian noise (GN) model is extended with a parameter to account for the finite memory of realistic fiber channels. This finite-memory…
Constellation shaping is a practical and effective technique to improve the performance and the rate adaptivity of optical communication systems. In principle, it could also be used to mitigate the impact of nonlinear effects, possibly…
An upper bound on the capacity of a cascade of nonlinear and noisy channels is presented. The cascade mimics the split-step Fourier method for computing waveform propagation governed by the stochastic generalized nonlinear Schroedinger…