Information Transmission Using the Nonlinear Fourier Transform, Part I: Mathematical Tools

DOI10.1109/TIT.2014.2321143zbMATH Open1360.94054arXiv1202.3653OpenAlexW3100973489WikidataQ59767633 ScholiaQ59767633MaRDI QIDQ2986293FDOQ2986293

Mansoor I. Yousefi, Frank R. Kschischang

Publication date: 16 May 2017

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The nonlinear Fourier transform (NFT), a powerful tool in soliton theory and exactly solvable models, is a method for solving integrable partial differential equations governing wave propagation in certain nonlinear media. The NFT decorrelates signal degrees-of-freedom in such models, in much the same way that the Fourier transform does for linear systems. In this three-part series of papers, this observation is exploited for data transmission over integrable channels such as optical fibers, where pulse propagation is governed by the nonlinear Schr"odinger equation. In this transmission scheme, which can be viewed as a nonlinear analogue of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing commonly used in linear channels, information is encoded in the nonlinear frequencies and their spectral amplitudes. Unlike most other fiber-optic transmission schemes, this technique deals with both dispersion and nonlinearity directly and unconditionally without the need for dispersion or nonlinearity compensation methods. This first paper explains the mathematical tools that underlie the method.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.3653

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Information theory (general) (94A15) Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes transforms and other transforms of Fourier type (42A38) Application of orthogonal and other special functions (94A11)

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• Phase computation for the finite-genus solutions to the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation using convolutional neural networks
• Some results on discrete eigenvalues for the stochastic nonlinear Schrödinger equation in fiber optics
• Fast algorithms for solving the inverse scattering problem for the Zakharov-Shabat system of equations and their applications
• On the beta distribution, the nonlinear Fourier transform and a combinatorial problem
• STOCHASTIC NONLINEAR SCHRÖDINGER EQUATION WITH ALMOST SPACE–TIME WHITE NOISE
• Nonlinear Fourier transform—towards the construction of nonlinear Fourier modes

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