Design and Performance Evaluation of a GMI-Optimized 32QAM

An optimized 32QAM with quasi-Gray bits mapping is designed to improve GMI capacity over a nonlinear optical channel, and is experimentally demonstrated to outperform 32QAM by ∼0.5dB SNR between 3 and 4 b/s GMI capacity.

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