Novel Phase-Noise-Tolerant Variational-Autoencoder-Based Equalization Suitable for Space-Division-Multiplexed Transmission

2025/09/17 by Lauinger, Vincent, Schmitz, Lennart, Matalla, Patrick +3
#FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Signal Processing (eess.SP) #electronic engineering #information engineering

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2509.14072

Abstract

We demonstrate the effectiveness of a novel phase-noise-tolerant, variational-autoencoder-based equalization scheme for space-division-multiplexed (SDM) transmission in an experiment over 150km of randomly-coupled multi-core fibers.

Citations

• A Spatially Coupled LDPC Coding Scheme with Scalable Decoders for Space Division Multiplexing
• Improving the Bootstrap of Blind Equalizers with Variational Autoencoders
• Blind Channel Equalization using Variational Autoencoders
• Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization

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