On Optimum Enumerative Sphere Shaping Blocklength at Different Symbol Rates for the Nonlinear Fiber Channel

07/08/2022

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by   Yunus Can Gultekin, et al.

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We show that a 0.9 dB SNR improvement can be obtained via short-blocklength enumerative sphere shaping for single-span transmission at 56 GBd. This gain vanishes for higher symbol rates and a larger number of spans.