Abstract
A modified pairwise optimization algorithm has been proposed to optimize N-dimensional constellation. The resulting optimized 2- and 4-dimensional 8QAM formats outperform star-8QAM by >0.4 dB at the SNR above the FEC limit in both simulation and experiments.
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