학술논문

Hermite-Gaussian Nonlinear Spectral Carriers for Optical Communication Systems Employing the Nonlinear Fourier Transform
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Communications Letters IEEE Commun. Lett. Communications Letters, IEEE. 26(1):109-112 Jan, 2022
Subject
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Optical transmitters
Optical pulses
Nonlinear optics
Optical solitons
Optical scattering
Fourier transforms
Optical receivers
Optical communication systems
nonlinear Fourier transform
Language
ISSN
1089-7798
1558-2558
2373-7891
Abstract
The nonlinear Fourier transform (NFT) is a new field of optical communications that borrows from the methods and concepts of integrable nonlinear equations, to develop new techniques of encoding and transmitting data, which are immune to both nonlinearity and dispersion. Here, we propose orthogonal Hermite-Gaussian spectral forms, known for their efficient time-bandwidth product in linear communications, as waveform carriers for NFT-based telecommunication systems. We demonstrate that the proposed multiplexing scheme outperforms state-of-the-art NFT systems both in terms of spectral efficiency and bit error rate, when the effects of inline noise are neglected.