Transmission of Waveforms Determined by 7 Eigenvalues with PSK-Modulated Spectral Amplitudes

TL;DR

This paper presents the design and experimental transmission of 2-ns waveforms with 7 eigenvalues and QPSK-modulated spectral amplitudes, achieving reliable data transfer over 1440 km of fiber optic link.

Contribution

It introduces a novel waveform design with spectral amplitude modulation based on eigenvalues, optimized for long-distance fiber transmission.

Findings

Achieved BER of 3.2E-3 over 1440 km

Optimized waveform considering link, transmitter, and receiver constraints

Demonstrated practical transmission of eigenvalue-based waveforms

Abstract

2-ns waveforms with 7 eigenvalues and their QPSK-modulated spectral amplitudes were optimized by taking constraints of link, transmitter, and receiver into account. In experiment these signals were transmitted with a BER of 3.2E-3 over 1440-km of NZ-DSF fiber spans.