Novel Phase-Noise-Tolerant Variational-Autoencoder-Based Equalization Suitable for Space-Division-Multiplexed Transmission
Vincent Lauinger, Lennart Schmitz, Patrick Matalla, Andrej Rode, Sebastian Randel, Laurent Schmalen
Published: 2025/9/17
Abstract
We demonstrate the effectiveness of a novel phase-noise-tolerant, variational-autoencoder-based equalization scheme for space-division-multiplexed (SDM) transmission in an experiment over 150km of randomly-coupled multi-core fibers.