Probabilistically-Shaped DMT for IM-DD Systems with Low-Complexity Fast WHT-Based PDSP

Abstract

Transmission capacity and receiver sensitivity of an intensity-modulation direct detection (IM-DD) optical discrete multi-tone (DMT) system can be improved by using the probabilistically shaping (PS) technique. However, different probabilistic distributions will be required owing to the unbalanced signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) among data-carrying subcarriers (SCs) induced by the imperfect frequency response of optical/electrical devices, which can increase the implementation complexity of the PS-DMT transceiver. In this work, different signal pre-processing schemes including pre-equalization, Walsh–Hadamard transform (WHT)-based full data-carrying SCs precoding (FDSP) and fast WHT-based partial data-carrying SCs precoding (PDSP) are investigated for SNR equalization in a short-reach PS-DMT transmission system. After transmission over 50 km single-mode fiber, the experimental results indicated that three pre-processed signals have almost the same generalized mutual information (GMI) performance and receiver sensitivity improvements. The proposed fast WHT-based PDSP scheme may be a good option for the implementation of the PS-DMT transmission systems with a large SC SNR fluctuation regarding computational complexity.