• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 20, Issue 8, 080601 (2022)
Fengchu Cao, Mingyi Gao*, Pengfei Wang, Xiaodi You, and Gangxiang Shen
Author Affiliations
  • Jiangsu Engineering Research Center of Novel Optical Fiber Technology and Communication Network, Suzhou Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Network Technology, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL202220.080601 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Fengchu Cao, Mingyi Gao, Pengfei Wang, Xiaodi You, Gangxiang Shen. Optimized blind equalization for probabilistically shaped high-order QAM signals[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2022, 20(8): 080601 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Probabilistically shaped (PS) high-order quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) signals are attractive to coherent optical communication due to increased spectral efficiency. However, standard digital signal processing algorithms are not optimal to demodulate PS high-order QAM signals. Therefore, a compromise equalization is indispensable to compensate the residual distortion. Meanwhile, the performance of conventional blind equalization highly depends on the accurate amplitude radius and distribution of the signals. The PS high-order QAM signals make the issue worsen because of indistinct amplitude distributions. In this work, we proposed an optimized blind equalization by utilizing a peak-density K-means clustering algorithm to accurately track the amplitude radius and distribution. We experimentally demonstrated the proposed method in a PS 256-QAM coherent optical transmission system and achieved approximately 1 dB optical signal-to-noise ratio improvement at the bit error rate of 1×10-3.
    EX(n)=hxx*(n)Ex(n)+hxy*(n)Ey(n),EY(n)=hyx*(n)Ex(n)+hyy*(n)Ey(n),

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    hxx(n+1)=hxx(n)+µεx(n)EX(n)Ex*(n),hxy(n+1)=hxy(n)+µεx(n)EX(n)Ey*(n),hyx(n+1)=hyx(n)+µεy(n)EY(n)Ex*(n),hyy(n+1)=hyy(n)+μεy(n)EY(n)Ey*(n),

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    εx,yRDE=Rk2(n)|EX,Y(n)|2,εx,yCMMA=(|||EX,Y(n)|Rref1|Rref2|Rref3)·sign(EX,Y(n))·sign(Rref1|EX,Y(n)|)·sign(Rref2|Rref1|EX,Y(n)||)·sign(Rref3|Rref2|Rref1|EX,Y(n)|||),

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    Rref1=(R1+R2)/2,Rref2=(R3R1)/2,Rref3=(R3R2)/2.

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    ρi=jie(disti,j/Dc)2.

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    δi=minj=1:i1(disti,j).

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    δl=maxj=2:N(disti,j).

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    Fengchu Cao, Mingyi Gao, Pengfei Wang, Xiaodi You, Gangxiang Shen. Optimized blind equalization for probabilistically shaped high-order QAM signals[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2022, 20(8): 080601
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