Enumerative Sphere Shaping for Rate Adaptation and Reach Increase in WDM Transmission Systems

07/03/2019

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by   Abdelkerim Amari, et al.

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The performance of enumerative sphere shaping (ESS), constant composition distribution matching (CCDM), and uniform signalling are compared at the same forward error correction rate. ESS is shown to offer a reach increase of approximately 10 respectively.