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The interaction between carrier phase recovery and probabilistic amplitude shaping (PAS) in the nonlinear regime is investigated. We show that, for sufficiently high signal-to-noise ratio, the first provides the same inter-channel nonlinearity mitigation achieved by short block-length PAS.
The hierarchical distribution matching (Hi-DM) approach for probabilistic shaping is described. The potential of Hi-DM in terms of trade-off between performance,complexity, and memory is illustrated through three case studies.
Two novel detection strategies for nonlinear Fourier transform-based transmission schemes are proposed. We show, through numerical simulations, that both strategies achieve a good performance improvement (up to 3 dB and 5 dB) with respect to conventional detection, respectively without or only moderately increasing the computational complexity of the receiver.
By exploiting a causality property of the nonlinear Fourier transform, a novel decision-feedback detection strategy for nonlinear frequency-division multiplexing (NFDM) systems is introduced. The performance of the proposed strategy is investigated both by simulations and by theoretical bounds and approximations, showing that it achieves a considerable performance improvement compared to previously adopted techniques in terms of Q-factor. The obtained improvement demonstrates that, by tailoring the detection strategy to the peculiar properties of the nonlinear Fourier transform, it is possible to boost the performance of NFDM systems and overcome current limitations imposed by the use of more conventional detection techniques suitable for the linear regime.
A novel decision feedback detection strategy exploiting a causality property of the nonlinear Fourier transform is introduced. The novel strategy achieves a considerable performance improvement compared to previously adopted strategies in terms of Q-factor.
The performance of optical fiber systems based on nonlinear frequency-division multiplexing (NFDM) or on more conventional transmission techniques is compared through numerical simulations. Some critical issues affecting NFDM systems-namely, the strict requirements needed to avoid burst interaction due to signal dispersion and the unfavorable dependence of performance on burst length-are investigated, highlighting their potentially disruptive effect in terms of spectral efficiency. Two digital processing techniques are finally proposed to halve the guard time between NFDM symbol bursts and reduce the size of the processing window at the receiver, increasing spectral efficiency and reducing computational complexity.
We introduce a new numerical method for the computation of the inverse nonlinear Fourier transform and compare its computational complexity and accuracy to those of other methods available in the literature. For a given accuracy, the proposed method requires the lowest number of operations