End-to-end learning for VCSEL-based optical interconnects: State-of-the-art, challenges, and opportunities

M Srinivasan, J Song, A Grabowski… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical interconnects (OIs) based on vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) are the
main workhorse within data centers, supercomputers, and even vehicles, providing low-cost …

High spectral efficiency coherent superchannel transmission with soliton microcombs

M Mazur, MG Suh, A Fülöp, J Schröder… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Spectral efficiency (SE) is one of the key metrics for optical communication networks. An
important building block for its maximization are optical superchannels, channels that are …

100-Gbps per-channel all-optical wavelength conversion without pre-amplifiers based on an integrated nanophotonic platform

P Zhao, Z He, V Shekhawat, M Karlsson… - …, 2023 - degruyter.com
All-optical wavelength conversion based on four-wave mixing attracts intense interest in
many areas, especially in optical fiber communications, due to the advantages of …

Geometric shaping of 2-D constellations in the presence of laser phase noise

H Dzieciol, G Liga, E Sillekens… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we propose a geometric shaping (GS) strategy to design 8, 16, 32, and 64-ary
modulation formats for the optical fibre channel impaired by both additive white Gaussian …

End-to-end optimization of constellation shaping for Wiener phase noise channels with a differentiable blind phase search

A Rode, B Geiger, S Chimmalgi… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
As the demand for higher data throughput in coherent optical communication systems
increases, we need to find ways to increase capacity in existing and future optical …

2048-QAM transmission at 15 GBd over 100 km using geometric constellation shaping

Y Wakayama, T Gerard, E Sillekens, L Galdino… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We experimentally investigated a pilot-aided digital signal processing (DSP) chain in
combination with high-order geometric constellation shaping to increase the achievable …

Periodicity-enabled size reduction of symbol based predistortion for high-order QAM

Z He, J Song, K Vijayan, C Häger… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We experimentally demonstrate a novel size reduction approach for symbol-based look-up
table (LUT) digital predistortion (DPD) of the transmitter impairments taking advantage of the …

Transceiver impairment mitigation by 8× 2 widely linear MIMO equalizer with independent complex filtering on IQ signals

M Sato, M Arikawa, H Noguchi, J Matsui… - IEEE Photonics …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-order modulation formats with high symbol rates are promising candidates for meeting
the growing traffic requirements of digital coherent transmission. In using these modulation …

Inter-Channel Interference Cancellation for Long-Haul Superchannel System

Z He, K Vijayan, A Mirani, M Karlsson… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical frequency combs enable superchannel systems with dense channel spacing by
providing equally-spaced lines to overcome the relative frequency drifts of free-running …

Compensation and monitoring of transmitter and receiver impairments in 10,000-km single-mode fiber transmission by adaptive multi-layer filters with augmented …

M Arikawa, M Sato, K Hayashi - Optics express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We propose an adaptive multi-layer (ML) filter architecture to compensate for linear
impairments that occur in transmitter (Tx) and receiver (Rx) components in ultra-long-haul …