Introducing enumerative sphere shaping for optical communication systems with short blocklengths

A Amari, S Goossens, YC Gültekin… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Probabilistic shaping based on constant composition distribution matching (CCDM) has
received considerable attention as a way to increase the capacity of fiber optical …

Hierarchical distribution matching for probabilistically shaped coded modulation

T Yoshida, M Karlsson, E Agrell - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The implementation difficulties of combining distribution matching (DM) and dematching
(invDM) for probabilistic shaping (PS) with soft-decision forward error correction (FEC) …

Geometrically-shaped multi-dimensional modulation formats in coherent optical transmission systems

B Chen, Y Lei, G Liga, Z Liang, W Ling… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Shaping modulation formats in multi-dimensional (MD) space is an effective approach to
harvest spectral efficiency gains in both the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel …

Polarization-ring-switching for nonlinearity-tolerant geometrically shaped four-dimensional formats maximizing generalized mutual information

B Chen, C Okonkwo, H Hafermann… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a new four-dimensional 64-ary polarization ring switching (4D-64PRS)
modulation format with a spectral efficiency of 6 bit/4D-sym is introduced. The format is …

Analytical model of nonlinear fiber propagation for general dual-polarization four-dimensional modulation formats

Z Liang, B Chen, Y Lei, G Liga… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Coherent dual-polarization (DP) optical transmission systems encode information on the
four available degrees of freedom of an optical field: the two polarization states, each with …

Introducing 4D geometric shell shaping for mitigating nonlinear interference noise

S Goossens, YC Gültekin, O Vassilieva… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Four dimensional geometric shell shaping (4D-GSS) is introduced as an approach for
closing the nonlinearity-caused shaping gap. This format is designed at the spectral …

Analysis and experimental demonstration of orthant-symmetric four-dimensional 7 bit/4D-sym modulation for optical fiber communication

B Chen, A Alvarado, S van der Heide… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We propose a new four-dimensional orthant-symmetric 128-ary modulation format (4D-
OS128) with a spectral efficiency of 7 bit/4D-sym. The proposed format fills the gap between …

Power-efficient Voronoi constellations for fiber-optic communication systems

S Li, A Mirani, M Karlsson… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Voronoi constellations (VCs) are considered as an effective geometric shaping method due
to their high power efficiencies and low complexity. In this paper, the performance of 16-and …

Increasing achievable information rates via geometric shaping

B Chen, C Okonkwo, H Hafermann… - … Conference on Optical …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Increasing Achievable Information Rates via Geometric Shaping Page 1 Increasing Achievable
Information Rates via Geometric Shaping Bin Chen(1), Chigo Okonkwo(1), Hartmut …

Huffman-coded sphere shaping for extended-reach single-span links

P Skvortcov, I Phillips, W Forysiak… - IEEE Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Huffman-coded sphere shaping (HCSS) is an algorithm for finite-length probabilistic
constellation shaping, which provides nearly optimal energy efficiency at low …