Fully-blind Neural Network Based Equalization for Severe Nonlinear Distortions in 112 Gbit/s Passive Optical Networks

2024/01/17 by Vincent Lauinger, Lauinger, Vincent, Patrick Matalla +9
Engineering · #Optical Network Technologies #Advanced Photonic Communication Systems #Photonic and Optical Devices

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2401.09579

Abstract

We demonstrate and evaluate a fully-blind digital signal processing (DSP) chain for 100G passive optical networks (PONs), and analyze different equalizer topologies based on neural networks with low hardware complexity.

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