Huffman-Coded Sphere Shaping for Extended Reach Single-Span Links

Abstract

Huffman-coded sphere shaping (HCSS) is an algorithm for finite-length probabilistic constellation shaping, which provides nearly optimal energy efficiency at low implementation complexity. In this paper, we experimentally study the nonlinear performance of HCSS employing dual-polarization 64-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (DP-64QAM) in an extended-reach single-span link comprising 200 km of standard single-mode fiber (SSMF). We investigate the effects of shaping sequence length, dimensionality of symbol mapping, and shaping rate. We determine that the naïve approach of Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution matching-which is optimal in the additive white Gaussian noise channel-provides a maximum achievable information rate (AIR) gain of 0.18 bits/4D-symbol with respect to uniform signaling at optimum launch power in the infinite length regime. Conversely, HCSS can achieve a gain of 0.37 bits/4D-symbol over uniform signaling using amplitude sequence length of 32, which may be implemented without multiplications, using integer comparison and addition operations only. Coded system performance, with a net data rate of approximately 425 Gb/s for both shaped and uniform inputs, is also analyzed.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2021.3055476
Divisions: College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > Aston Institute of Photonics Technology (AIPT)
College of Engineering & Physical Sciences
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Uncontrolled Keywords: Adaptive optics,Lattices,Nonlinear optics,Optical fiber communication,Optical polarization,Optical pulse shaping,Optical transmitters,Probabilistic logic,nonlinear fiber channel,probabilistic shaping,single-span links,sphere shaping,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Publication ISSN: 1077-260X
Last Modified: 19 Mar 2024 08:23
Date Deposited: 04 Feb 2021 09:09
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2021-05-01
Published Online Date: 2021-01-29
Accepted Date: 2021-01-01
Authors: Skvortcov, Pavel
Phillips, Ian David (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-2776-8939)
Forysiak, Wladek (ORCID Profile 0000-0001-5411-1193)
Koike-akino, Toshiaki
Kojima, Keisuke
Parsons, Kieran
Millar, David

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