[TuB1] Long-Haul Transmission Systems

[TuB1-5] Partial Multilevel Coding with Probabilistic Shaping for Low-power Optical Transmission

〇Kiichi Sugitani¹, Yohei Koganei², Tomofumi Oyama², Hisao Nakashima² (¹Fujitsu Kyushu Network Technologies Ltd., Japan, ²Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan)

Keywords:Coding and forward error correction for optical communications

We propose a combination of probabilistic shaping and multilevel coding. Evaluation results demonstrate that using this method enables us to reduce implementation complexity while maintaining a strong performance.