CNN Outperforms MMSE Filtering at Equal Complexity While Combating Chromatic Dispersion in PAM

Conference: ECOC 2024 - 50th European Conference on Optical Communication
09/22/2024 - 09/26/2024 at Frankfurt, Germany

Proceedings: ITG-Fb. 317: ECOC 2024

Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF

Authors:
Li, Shen; Omidi, Amir; Paquin, Benoit; Zheng, Zibo; Geravand, Alireza; Shi, Wei; Zeng, Ming; Rusch, Leslie A.

Abstract:
To combat chromatic dispersion in short reach direct detection, we improve on traditional linear filters minimizing mean square error. We demonstrate experimentally a convolutional neural network at equal complexity reducing required SNR by over 1 dB, and by 2 dB combined with unequally spaced PAM4 levels.