no code implementations • 7 Jun 2022 • Sebastiaan Goossens, Yunus Can Gültekin, Olga Vassilieva, Inwoong Kim, Paparao Palacharla, Chigo Okonkwo, Alex Alvarado
Reach increase and nonlinearity tolerance are evaluated in terms of achievable information rates and post-FEC bit-error rate.
no code implementations • 7 Jun 2022 • Sebastiaan Goossens, Yunus Can Gültekin, Olga Vassilieva, Inwoong Kim, Paparao Palacharla, Chigo Okonkwo, Alex Alvarado
Geometric shell shaping is introduced and evaluated for reach increase and nonlinearity tolerance in terms of MI against PM-16QAM and PS-PM-16QAM in a 400ZR compatible transmission setup.
no code implementations • 11 May 2022 • Menno van den Hout, Sjoerd van der Heide, Sebastiaan Goossens, Chigo Okonkwo
A predistorter for transmitter nonlinearities is applied to the evaluation of a geometrically shaped constellation, such that constellation points are transmitted correctly during the evaluation of the geometrically shaped constellation.
no code implementations • 3 Jan 2022 • Yunus Can Gültekin, Alex Alvarado, Olga Vassilieva, Inwoong Kim, Paparao Palacharla, Chigo Okonkwo, Frans M. J. Willems
Band-trellis enumerative sphere shaping is proposed to decrease the energy variations in channel input sequences.
no code implementations • 20 Dec 2021 • Ruby S. B. Ospina, Menno van den Hout, Sjoerd van der Heide, John van Weerdenburg, Roland Ryf, Nicolas K. Fontaine, Haoshuo Chen, Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa, Chigo Okonkwo, Darli A. A. Mello
In a recent work we propose an MDG and SNR estimation method using ANN.
no code implementations • 20 Dec 2021 • Vinícius Oliari, Boris Karanov, Sebastiaan Goossens, Gabriele Liga, Olga Vassilieva, Inwoong Kim, Paparao Palacharla, Chigo Okonkwo, Alex Alvarado
In this paper we carry out a joint optimization of probabilistic (PS) and geometric shaping (GS) for four-dimensional (4D) modulation formats in long-haul coherent wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) optical fiber communications using an auto-encoder framework.
no code implementations • 29 Oct 2021 • Bin Chen, Wei Ling, Yunus Can Gültekin, Yi Lei, Chigo Okonkwo, Alex Alvarado
Signal shaping is vital to approach Shannon's capacity, yet it is challenging to implement at very high speeds.
no code implementations • 16 Aug 2021 • Sjoerd van der Heide, Ruben S. Luis, Sebastiaan Goossens, Benjamin J. Puttnam, Georg Rademacher, Ton Koonen, Satoshi Shinada, Yoshinari Awaji, Alex Alvarado, Hideaki Furukawa, Chigo Okonkwo
A software-defined optical receiver is implemented on an off-the-shelf commercial graphics processing unit (GPU).
no code implementations • 16 Aug 2021 • Sjoerd van der Heide, Ruben S. Luis, Benjamin J. Puttnam, Georg Rademacher, Ton Koonen, Satoshi Shinada, Yohinari Awaji, Hideaki Furukawa, Chigo Okonkwo
8-, 16-, 32-, and 64-QAM are successfully transmitted over 7600, 5600, 3600, and 1600 km, respectively.
no code implementations • 22 Jul 2021 • Menno van den Hout, Sjoerd van der Heide, Chigo Okonkwo
A Kramers-Kronig receiver with a continuous wave tone added digitally at the transmitter is combined with a digital resolution enhancer to limit the increase in transmitter quantization noise.
no code implementations • 31 May 2021 • Yunus Can Gültekin, Alex Alvarado, Olga Vassilieva, Inwoong Kim, Paparao Palacharla, Chigo Okonkwo, Frans M. J. Willems
Nonlinear interference (NLI) generated during the propagation of an optical waveform through the fiber depends on the fourth order standardized moment of the channel input distribution, also known as kurtosis.
no code implementations • 14 Apr 2021 • Ruby S B Ospina, Menno van den Hout, Sjoerd van der Heide, Chigo Okonkwo, Darli A A Mello
We propose a neural network model for MDG and optical SNR estimation in SDM transmission.
no code implementations • 8 Apr 2021 • Sjoerd van der Heide, Ruben S. Luis, Benjamin J. Puttnam, Georg Rademacher, Ton Koonen, Satoshi Shinada, Yohinari Awaji, Hideaki Furukawa, Chigo Okonkwo
Real-time operation of a software-defined, GPU-based optical receiver is demonstrated over a 100-span straight-line optical link.
no code implementations • 27 Nov 2020 • Sjoerd van der Heide, Ruben S. Luis, Benjamin J. Puttnam, Georg Rademacher, Ton Koonen, Satoshi Shinada, Yohinari Awaji, Hideaki Furukawa, Chigo Okonkwo
We introduce a flexible, software-defined real-time multi-modulation format receiver implemented on an off-the-shelf general-purpose graphics processing unit (GPU).
no code implementations • 29 Oct 2020 • Menno van den Hout, Sjoerd van der Heide, John van Weerdenburg, Marianne Bogot-Astruc, Adrian Amezcua Correa, Jose Enrique Antonio-López, Juan Carlos Alvarado-Zacarias, Pierre Sillard, Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa, Chigo Okonkwo
We demonstrate 1 Tbit/s/$\lambda$ single-span transmission over a heterogeneous link consisting of graded-index 50 $\mu$m core multi-mode fiber and 6LP few-mode fiber using a Kramers-Kronig receiver structure.
Signal Processing
no code implementations • 29 Oct 2020 • Menno van den Hout, Ruby S. B. Ospina, Sjoerd van der Heide, Juan Carlos Alvarado-Zacarias, Jose Enrique Antonio-López, Marianne Bigot-Astruc, Adrian Amezcua Correa, Pierre Sillard, Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa, Darli A. A. Mello, Chigo Okonkwo
We experimentally validate a mode-dependent loss (MDL) estimation technique employing acorrection factor to remove the MDL estimation dependence on the SNR when using a minimum meansquare error (MMSE) equalizer.
no code implementations • 27 Oct 2020 • Sjoerd van der Heide, Ruben S. Luis, Benjamin J. Puttnam, Georg Rademacher, Ton Koonen, Satoshi Shinada, Yoshinari Awaji, Chigo Okonkwo, Hideaki Furukawa
We demonstrate stable real-time operation of a software-defined, GPU-based receiver over a metropolitan network.
no code implementations • 27 Oct 2020 • Sjoerd van der Heide, Rutger van Anrooij, Menno van den Hout, Nicolas K. Fontaine, Roland Ryf, Haoshuo Chen, Mikael Mazur, Jose Enrique Antonio-Lopez, Juan Carlos Alvarado-Zacarias, Ton Koonen, Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa, Chigo Okonkwo
Digital holography measures the complex optical field and transfer matrix of a device, polarization-diversity is often achieved through spatial multiplexing.
no code implementations • 31 Aug 2020 • Ruby S. B. Ospina, Menno van den Hout, Juan Carlos Alvarado-Zacarias, Jose Enrique Antonio-López, Marianne Bigot-Astruc, Adrian Amezcua Correa, Pierre Sillard, Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa, Chigo Okonkwo, Darli A. A. Mello
Based on the transfer function of MIMO MMSE equalizers, and assuming a known SNR, we calculate a correction factor that improves the estimation process in moderate levels of MDL/MDG and SNR.
no code implementations • 20 Jul 2020 • Vinícius Oliari, Sebastiaan Goossens, Christian Häger, Gabriele Liga, Rick M. Bütler, Menno van den Hout, Sjoerd van der Heide, Henry D. Pfister, Chigo Okonkwo, Alex Alvarado
One guiding principle for previous work on the design of practical nonlinearity compensation schemes is that fewer steps lead to better systems.
no code implementations • 28 Mar 2020 • Bin Chen, Alex Alvarado, Sjoerd van der Heide, Menno van den Hout, Hartmut Hafermann, Chigo Okonkwo
We propose a new four-dimensional orthant-symmetric 128-ary modulation format (4D-OS128) with a spectral efficiency of 7bit/4D-sym.