Jointly polar-coded probabilistic shaping scheme based on many-to-one mapping in IM/DD optical DMT interconnection

Hailian He, Jun Ming, Junyuan Song, Yujia Mu, Yucai Tian, Zhipei Li, Ran Gao, Xiangjun Xin, Ze Dong*

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Abstract

A joint channel coding and probabilistic shaping (PS) scheme is proposed and experimentally demonstrated in an intensity modulation and direct-detection optical discrete multi-tone (DMT) interconnection. The PS-32 quadrature amplitude modulation (PS-32QAM) is probabilistically reshaped from a 6-bit/symbol 64QAM signal based on polar-coded many-to-one (MTO) mapping, enabling a Gaussian-like symbol probability distribution without shaping or forward error correction redundancy. A bit-interleaved polar-coded modulation iterative decoding system based on joint QAM demapping and polar decoding is employed to retrieve the multi-labeled PS symbols. Experimental results indicate that the polar-coded PS-32QAM DMT signal achieves a 1.5-dB receiver power sensitivity improvement and a 2.71-dB fiber nonlinearity tolerance enhancement over 10-km standard single-mode fiber transmission.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)37732-37738
Number of pages7
JournalOptics Express
Volume32
Issue number21
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 7 Oct 2024

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