A Novel Nonlinearity Tolerant Super-Gaussian Distribution for Probabilistically Shaped Modulation
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Tehrani, Mohsen Nader; Torbatian, Mehdi; Sun, Han; Mertz, Pierre; Wu, Kuang-Tsan
- Source
- 2018 European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) Optical Communication (ECOC), 2018 European Conference on. :1-3 Sep, 2018
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Photonics and Electrooptics
Signal Processing and Analysis
Modulation
Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution
Optical fiber communication
Optical fiber amplifiers
Probabilistic logic
Optical fiber polarization
Signal to noise ratio
- Language
Probabilistically-shaped constellations are found to have larger than expected Kerr nonlinearity induced penalty in long-haul transmission. In this paper, a novel nonlinear tolerant super-Gaussian distribution has been proposed which outperforms the Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution. The simulation and experimental results both show a significant improvement.