Co-LSTM-based fiber link modeling with ASE noise tracking for long-haul coherent optical transmission

Opt Lett. 2024 Apr 1;49(7):1848-1851. doi: 10.1364/OL.517041.

Abstract

In this Letter, a novel, to the best of our knowledge, channel modeling scheme based on cascading chromatic dispersion-nonlinearity feature decoupling modules is proposed with the center-oriented long short-term memory (Co-LSTM) network structure adopted for modeling nonlinearity of each optical fiber span. By tracking the amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noise at the output of each fiber span, the Co-LSTM-based channel modeling scheme achieves high waveform accuracy for long-haul coherent optical transmission compared with the conventional split-step Fourier transform method (SSFM) while saving calculation time by almost one order of magnitude.