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20152026
most citedHigh-Cardinality Geometrical Constellation Shaping for the Nonlinear Fibre Channel

49 citations · 576 across the 50 of their papers we have counts for

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52 papers

eess.SP2026

End-to-End Modelling of Earthquake-Induced Polarisation Perturbations in Submarine Optical Fibres

Rick M. Butler, José Núñez-Kasaneva, Gabriele Liga +3

We present an end-to-end model of earthquake-perturbed signal propagation in submarine fibres. Ground displacements are converted to fibre strain via ocean pressure, and injected i…

eess.SP2026

Symbol Rate-Code Rate Trade-offs for IM/DD 200G/400G per Lane LPO Transceivers

José Núñez-Kasaneva, Yunus Can Gültekin, Stefanos Dris +3

We analyze the symbol rate-code rate trade-off in bandwidth-limited IM/DD systems targeting LPO transceivers, using PAM-4/6/8 as candidate modulation formats. We use the capacity o…

eess.SP2026

Regular Perturbation on the Group-Velocity Dispersion Parameter for Dual-Polarization Short-Reach Systems

Dario Cellini, Vinícius Oliari, Erik Agrell +3

The Manakov equation governs the propagation of signals in dual-polarization systems. Its solution is usually approximated by regular perturbation on the nonlinear Kerr parameter.…

eess.SP2026

The Memory-Enhanced Gaussian Noise (MEGN) Model for Fiber-Optic Channels

Kaiquan Wu, Gabriele Liga, Marco Secondini +5

The enhanced Gaussian noise (EGN) model is widely used for estimating the nonlinear interference (NLI) power accumulated in coherent fiber-optic transmission systems. Given a fixed…

cs.IT2026

On LLR Mismatch in Belief Propagation Decoding of Overcomplete QLDPC Codes

Hernan Cordova, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming, Gabriele Liga +2

Belief propagation (BP) decoding of quantum low density parity check (QLDPC) codes is often implemented using overcomplete stabilizer (OS) representations, where redundant parity c…

eess.SP2025

A General Nonlinear Model for Arbitrary Modulation Formats in the Presence of Inter-Channel Simulated Raman Scattering

Zhiwei Liang, Bin Chen, Jiwei Xu +4

The four-dimensional nonlinear model is extended to include the inter-channel stimulated Raman scattering, enabling accurate prediction of dual-polarization four-dimensional modula…

cs.IT2025

Lowering Error Floors for Hard Decision Decoding of OFEC Code

Jasper Lagendijk, Yunus Can Gültekin, Alexios Balatsoukas-Stimming +2

Stall patterns are known to cause an error floor in hard decision decoding of the OFEC code. We propose a novel stall pattern removal algorithm that lowers the error floor of state…

eess.SP2025

Predicting Nonlinear Interference for Short-Blocklength 4D Probabilistic Shaping

Jingxin Deng, Bin Chen, Zhiwei Liang +2

We derive a heuristic nonlinear interference model for 4D probabilistic shaping considering the polarization and time correlation of the 4D symbols. We demonstrate an average SNR p…

cs.IT2025

Nonlinearity Cancellation Based on Optimized First Order Perturbative Kernels

Alex Alvarado, Astrid Barreiro, Gabriele Liga

The potential offered by interference cancellation based on optimized regular perturbation kernels of the Manakov equation is studied. Theoretical gains of up to 2.5 dB in effectiv…

eess.SP2024★ 12 cited

On Shaping Gain of Multidimensional Constellation in Linear and Nonlinear Optical Fiber Channel

Bin Chen, Zhiwei Liang, Yi Lei +3

Utilizing the multi-dimensional (MD) space for constellation shaping has been proven to be an effective approach for achieving shaping gains. Despite there exists a variety of MD m…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Rate-adaptive Reconciliation for Experimental Continuous-variable Quantum Key Distribution with Discrete Modulation over a Free-space Optical Link

Kadir Gümüş, João dos Reis Frazão, Vincent van Vliet +8

Continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CV-QKD) has been proposed as a method for securely exchanging keys to protect against the security concerns caused by potential advanc…

cs.IT2024★ 1 cited

On the Capacity of Correlated Phase-Noise Channels: An Electro-Optic Frequency Comb Example

Mohammad Farsi, Hamdi Joudeh, Gabriele Liga +3

The capacity of a discrete-time channel with correlated phase noises is investigated. In particular, the electro-optic frequency comb system is considered, where the phase noise of…

eess.SP2023

On the Performance of Multidimensional Constellation Shaping for Linear and Nonlinear Optical Fiber Channel

Bin Chen, Zhiwei Liang, Shen Li +3

Multidimensional constellation shaping of up to 32 dimensions with different spectral efficiencies are compared through AWGN and fiber-optic simulations. The results show that no c…

eess.SP2023

Low-Complexity Soft-Decision Detection for Combating DFE Burst Errors in IM/DD Links

Kaiquan Wu, Gabriele Liga, Jamal Riani +1

The deployment of non-binary pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) and soft decision (SD)-forward error correction (FEC) in future intensity-modulation (IM)/direct-detection (DD) links…

eess.SP2023★ 20 cited

Analytical Model of Nonlinear Fiber Propagation for General Dual-Polarization Four-Dimensional Modulation Format

Zhiwei Liang, Bin Chen, Yi Lei +2

Coherent dual-polarization (DP) optical transmission systems encode information on the four available degrees of freedom of an optical field: the two polarization states, each with…

eess.SP2022★ 8 cited

Data-driven Enhancement of the Time-domain First-order Regular Perturbation Model

Astrid Barreiro, Gabriele Liga, Alex Alvarado

A normalized batch gradient descent optimizer is proposed to improve the first-order regular perturbation coefficients of the Manakov equation, often referred to as kernels. The op…

cs.IT2022★ 48 cited

Geometrically-Shaped Multi-Dimensional Modulation Formats in Coherent Optical Transmission Systems

Bin Chen, Yi Lei, Gabriele Liga +4

Shaping modulation formats in multi-dimensional (MD) space is an effective approach to harvest spectral efficiency gains in both the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel an…

eess.SP2022★ 1 cited

Analytical SNR Prediction in Long-Haul Optical Transmission using General Dual-Polarization 4D Formats

Zhiwei Liang, Bin Chen, Yi Lei +2

Nonlinear interference models for dual-polarization 4D (DP-4D) modulation have only been used so far to predict signal-signal nonlinear interference. We show that including the sig…

cs.IT2022

Capacity Bounds for Optical WDM Channels with Peak Power Constraints

Viswanathan Ramachandran, Gabriele Liga, Astrid Barreiro +1

We investigate optical WDM transmission from the standpoint of an information-theoretic interference channel. Achievable rates that outperform treating interference as noise are pr…

cs.IT2022★ 49 cited

High-Cardinality Geometrical Constellation Shaping for the Nonlinear Fibre Channel

Eric Sillekens, Gabriele Liga, Domaniç Lavery +2

This paper presents design methods for highly efficient optimisation of geometrically shaped constellations to maximise data throughput in optical communications. It describes meth…

eess.SP2021

Shaped Four-Dimensional Modulation Formats for Optical Fiber Communication Systems

Bin Chen, Gabriele Liga, Yi Lei +4

We review the design of multidimensional modulations by maximizing generalized mutual information and compare the maximum transmission reach of recently introduced 4D formats. A mo…

eess.SP2021★ 11 cited

High-Cardinality Hybrid Shaping for 4D Modulation Formats in Optical Communications Optimized via End-to-End Learning

Vinícius Oliari, Boris Karanov, Sebastiaan Goossens +6

In this paper we carry out a joint optimization of probabilistic (PS) and geometric shaping (GS) for four-dimensional (4D) modulation formats in long-haul coherent wavelength divis…

eess.SP2021

Model-aided Geometrical Shaping of Dual-polarization 4D Formats in the Nonlinear Fiber Channel

Gabriele Liga, Bin Chen, Alex Alvarado

The geometry of dual-polarization four-dimensional constellations is optimized in the optical fiber channel using a recent nonlinear interference model. A 0.27 bit/4D rate gain and…

cs.IT2021

Capacity Region Bounds for the K user Dispersive Nonlinear Optical WDM Channel with Peak Power Constraints

Viswanathan Ramachandran, Gabriele Liga, Astrid Barreiro +1

It is known that fiber nonlinearities induce crosstalk in a wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) system, which limits the capacity of such systems as the transmitted signal power…