Modeling and Mitigation of Equalization-Enhanced Phase Noise
arXiv:2606.21468
Abstract
Equalization-enhanced phase noise (EEPN) emerges as a key performance limitation in high symbol-rate coherent transmission systems. In this paper, we highlight recent advances in modeling EEPN and show that the temporal Gaussian noise model reproduces the characteristic burst-like SNR degradation, enabling efficient system simulation.
Invited paper/talk at Eur. Conf. Opt. Commun. (ECOC), Malaga, Spain, Sep. 2026