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cs.NE2024

Short-reach Optical Communications: A Real-world Task for Neuromorphic Hardware

Elias Arnold, Eike-Manuel Edelmann, Alexander von Bank +3

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) emulated on dedicated neuromorphic accelerators promise to offer energy-efficient signal processing. However, the neuromorphic advantage over traditi…

eess.SP2024★ 1 cited

Non-linear Equalization in 112 Gb/s PONs Using Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

Rodrigo Fischer, Patrick Matalla, Sebastian Randel +1

We investigate Kolmogorov-Arnold networks (KANs) for non-linear equalization of 112 Gb/s PAM4 passive optical networks (PONs). Using pruning and extensive hyperparameter search, we…

eess.SP2024

Recent Advances on Machine Learning-aided DSP for Short-reach and Long-haul Optical Communications

Laurent Schmalen, Vincent Lauinger, Jonas Ney +5

In this paper, we highlight recent advances in the use of machine learning for implementing equalizers for optical communications. We highlight both algorithmic advances as well as…

cs.AR2024

CNN-Based Equalization for Communications: Achieving Gigabit Throughput with a Flexible FPGA Hardware Architecture

Jonas Ney, Christoph Füllner, Vincent Lauinger +3

To satisfy the growing throughput demand of data-intensive applications, the performance of optical communication systems increased dramatically in recent years. With higher throug…

eess.SP2024

Real-Time FPGA Demonstrator of ANN-Based Equalization for Optical Communications

Jonas Ney, Patrick Matalla, Vincent Lauinger +3

In this work, we present a high-throughput field programmable gate array (FPGA) demonstrator of an artificial neural network (ANN)-based equalizer. The equalization is performed an…

eess.SP2024

Fully-blind Neural Network Based Equalization for Severe Nonlinear Distortions in 112 Gbit/s Passive Optical Networks

Vincent Lauinger, Patrick Matalla, Jonas Ney +3

We demonstrate and evaluate a fully-blind digital signal processing (DSP) chain for 100G passive optical networks (PONs), and analyze different equalizer topologies based on neural…