Improvement on Received Optical Power Based Flexible Modulation in a PON by the Use of Non-Uniform PAM

Non-uniform PAM4 utilizes unequal distances between constellation points. The MSB can be decoded with lower SNR than the LSB. In PONs with a spread in received optical powers, more ONUs are able to decode non-uniform PAM4 compared to normal PAM4.

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