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Huffman-Coded Sphere Shaping for Extended-Reach Single-Span Links

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arxiv 2008.02313 v1 pith:7NHZ3GII submitted 2020-08-05 eess.SP

Huffman-Coded Sphere Shaping for Extended-Reach Single-Span Links

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Huffman-coded sphere shaping (HCSS) is an algorithm for finite-length probabilistic constellation shaping, which provides nearly optimal energy efficiency at low implementation complexity. In this paper, we experimentally study the nonlinear performance of HCSS employing dual-polarization 64-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (DP-64QAM) in an extended reach single-span link comprising 200 km of standard single mode fiber (SSMF). We investigate the effects of shaping sequence length, dimensionality of symbol mapping, and shaping rate. We determine that the na\"ive approach of Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution matching - which is optimal in the additive white Gaussian noise channel - provides a maximum achievable information rate gain of 0.18 bits/4D-symbol in the infinite length regime. Conversely, HCSS can achieve a gain of 0.37 bits/4Dsymbol using amplitude sequence lengths of 32, which may be implemented without multiplications, using integer comparison and addition operations only. Coded system performance, with a net data rate of approximately 425 Gb/s for both shaped and uniform inputs, is also analyzed.

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