Information Transmission Using the Nonlinear Fourier Transform, Part III: Spectrum Modulation

DOI10.1109/TIT.2014.2321155zbMATH Open1360.94056arXiv1302.2875WikidataQ59767636 ScholiaQ59767636MaRDI QIDQ2986295FDOQ2986295

Authors: Mansoor I. Yousefi, Frank R. Kschischang 

Publication date: 16 May 2017

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

Abstract: Motivated by the looming "capacity crunch" in fiber-optic networks, information transmission over such systems is revisited. Among numerous distortions, inter-channel interference in multiuser wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) is identified as the seemingly intractable factor limiting the achievable rate at high launch power. However, this distortion and similar ones arising from nonlinearity are primarily due to the use of methods suited for linear systems, namely WDM and linear pulse-train transmission, for the nonlinear optical channel. Exploiting the integrability of the nonlinear Schr"odinger (NLS) equation, a nonlinear frequency-division multiplexing (NFDM) scheme is presented, which directly modulates non-interacting signal degrees-of-freedom under NLS propagation. The main distinction between this and previous methods is that NFDM is able to cope with the nonlinearity, and thus, as the the signal power or transmission distance is increased, the new method does not suffer from the deterministic cross-talk between signal components which has degraded the performance of previous approaches. In this paper, emphasis is placed on modulation of the discrete component of the nonlinear Fourier transform of the signal and some simple examples of achievable spectral efficiencies are provided.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.2875

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) Modulation and demodulation in information and communication theory (94A14)

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