Multi-span long-haul fiber transmission model based on cascaded neural networks with multi-head attention mechanism

Abstract

In this paper, a novelty fiber transmission model consisting of cascaded neural networks with the multi-head attention mechanism has been put forward to solve signal transmission prediction problems in multi-span long-haul fiber link. After appropriately training the model with collected data by the gradient descent method, it can gradually handle the rules of signals' changes over each span and predict the signal transmission results with notably low time cost compared with traditional split-step Fourier method based long-haul model. Through numerical demonstration, this new model can predict 1000km fiber link with symbol rate up to 40GBaud in the QAM modulation with extremely low predicting error.