Paper ID: 2401.09579

Fully-blind Neural Network Based Equalization for Severe Nonlinear Distortions in 112 Gbit/s Passive Optical Networks

Vincent Lauinger, Patrick Matalla, Jonas Ney, Norbert Wehn, Sebastian Randel, Laurent Schmalen

We demonstrate and evaluate a fully-blind digital signal processing (DSP) chain for 100G passive optical networks (PONs), and analyze different equalizer topologies based on neural networks with low hardware complexity.

Submitted: Jan 17, 2024