posted on 2023-11-30, 05:25authored byFabian Steiner, Francesco Da Ros, Metodi Plamenov Yankov, Georg Böcherer, Patrick Schulte, Søren Forchhammer, Gerhard Kramer
The rate flexibility and probabilistic shaping gain of $4$-dimensional signaling is experimentally tested for short-reach, unrepeated transmission. A rate granularity of 0.5 bits/QAM symbol is achieved with a distribution matcher based on a simple look-up table.