| CPC H04B 10/588 (2013.01) [H04B 2210/254 (2013.01)] | 23 Claims |

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1. A method comprising:
mapping a symbol from an optical N-QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) constellation into a binary bit set; wherein N is the number of symbols in the constellation;
reducing a length of the binary bit set; wherein the reduction is performed according to at least one property of nonlinear distortion;
generating a lookup table (LUT) address from a LUT address generator; and
adding the LUT address to a LUT of size smaller than N (2M+1); wherein 2M is the number of neighboring symbols to be stored.
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