Wiener Filter for Short-Reach Fiber-Optic Links

Daniel Plabst, Francisco Javier García Gómez, Thomas Wiegart, Norbert Hanik

IEEE Communications Letters · 2020 · 13 citations · 7 references

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Analytic expressions are derived for the Wiener filter (WF), also known as the linear minimum mean square error (LMMSE) estimator, for an intensity-modulation/direct-detection (IM/DD) short-haul fiber-optic communication system. The link is purely dispersive and the nonlinear square-law detector (SLD) operates at the thermal noise limit. The achievable rates of geometrically shaped PAM constellations are substantially increased by taking the SLD into account as compared to a WF that ignores the SLD.

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