[PDP] Postdeadline Paper (PDP) Session

[PDP 2] First Experimental Demonstration of Probabilistic Enumerative Sphere Shaping in Optical Fiber Communications

〇Sebastiaan Goossens¹, Sjoerd van der Heide¹, Menno van den Hout¹, Abdelkerim Amari¹, Yunus Can Gültekin¹, Olga Vassilieva², Inwoong Kim², Tadashi Ikeuchi², Frans M. J. Willems¹, Alex Alvarado¹, Chigo Okonkwo¹ (¹Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands, ²Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc., USA)

Keywords:Advanced Modulation, Coding and Multiplexing. Coding and forward error correction for optical communications.

We transmit probabilistic enumerative sphere shaped dual-polarization 64-QAM at 350Gbit/s/channel over 1610km SSMF using a short blocklength of 200. A reach increase of 15% over constant composition distribution matching with identical blocklength is demonstrated.