Experimental Demonstration of Geometrically-Shaped Constellations Tailored to the Nonlinear Fibre Channel

05/15/2018

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by   E. Sillekens, et al.

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A geometrically-shaped 256-QAM constellation, tailored to the nonlinear optical fibre channel, is experimentally demonstrated. The proposed constellation outperforms both uniform and AWGN-tailored 256-QAM, as it is designed to optimise the trade-off between shaping gain, nonlinearity and transceiver impairments.