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Autores principales: Prasad, Ravneel, Viterbo, Emanuele
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Publicado: 2026
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Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04699
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author Prasad, Ravneel
Viterbo, Emanuele
author_facet Prasad, Ravneel
Viterbo, Emanuele
contents Nonlinearity in coherent fiber links is fundamentally driven by the temporal statistics and spectral structure of signal intensity. This paper develops a unified framework that links block-level energy statistics of shaped constellations to the low-frequency features of the intensity-fluctuation power spectral density (PSD), thereby enabling spectral-temporal co-design for nonlinear mitigation. A semi-analytical PSD model is derived for finitely block-shaped symbols (including Constant Composition Distribution Matching (CCDM) and Enumerative Sphere Shaping (ESS)), explicitly exposing contributions from self-beating dependent on symbol energy variance, inter-symbol beating dependent on mean symbol energy, and block-induced energy variance terms. A compact expression for the spectral-dip width is obtained that captures the block length, symbol rate, pulse roll-off, and chromatic dispersion. This yields design rules for lowering the low-frequency content. The low-frequency content most strongly drives the induced XPM. Resulting optimal symbol-rate laws are provided for shaped and unshaped systems, and are validated by Monte-Carlo simulations, which also confirm the distinct low-frequency behaviour of CCDM (suppressed DC) versus ESS (finite DC pedestal at moderate block lengths). The framework consolidates prior time- and frequency-domain views and supplies actionable guidance for choosing block length, symbol rate, and shaping method to reduce nonlinear interference in high-capacity WDM systems.
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spellingShingle Intensity Fluctuation Spectra as a Design Guide for Nonlinear-Tolerant Constellation Shaping
Prasad, Ravneel
Viterbo, Emanuele
Signal Processing
Nonlinearity in coherent fiber links is fundamentally driven by the temporal statistics and spectral structure of signal intensity. This paper develops a unified framework that links block-level energy statistics of shaped constellations to the low-frequency features of the intensity-fluctuation power spectral density (PSD), thereby enabling spectral-temporal co-design for nonlinear mitigation. A semi-analytical PSD model is derived for finitely block-shaped symbols (including Constant Composition Distribution Matching (CCDM) and Enumerative Sphere Shaping (ESS)), explicitly exposing contributions from self-beating dependent on symbol energy variance, inter-symbol beating dependent on mean symbol energy, and block-induced energy variance terms. A compact expression for the spectral-dip width is obtained that captures the block length, symbol rate, pulse roll-off, and chromatic dispersion. This yields design rules for lowering the low-frequency content. The low-frequency content most strongly drives the induced XPM. Resulting optimal symbol-rate laws are provided for shaped and unshaped systems, and are validated by Monte-Carlo simulations, which also confirm the distinct low-frequency behaviour of CCDM (suppressed DC) versus ESS (finite DC pedestal at moderate block lengths). The framework consolidates prior time- and frequency-domain views and supplies actionable guidance for choosing block length, symbol rate, and shaping method to reduce nonlinear interference in high-capacity WDM systems.
title Intensity Fluctuation Spectra as a Design Guide for Nonlinear-Tolerant Constellation Shaping
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04699