Abstract

To combine the individual benefits of probabilistic-shaping (PS) and time-frequency-packing (TFP), we consider for the first time PS-TFP wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) superchannels. However, TFP introduces inter-symbol interference (ISI) and/or inter-carrier interference (ICI). Moreover, the presence of reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers in the fiber links may further degrade the system performance. In this letter, we efficiently handle such challenges to present PS-TFP superchannels enabling Terabit-per-second data rates. For this, we perform a joint ISI and ICI channel estimation in tandem with turbo equalization to mitigate the interference. We investigate optimizing the parameters in the shaping and packing dimensions to achieve a desired target spectral efficiency. We show through our numerical results that such an optimized PS-TFP transmission leads up to 1.2 dB performance improvement over an unshaped Nyquist WDM system under similar conditions.

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