Non-uniformstep-sizedistributionisimplementedforsplit-stepbasednonlinearcompensationinsingle-channel112-Gb/s16quadratureamplitudemodulation(QAM)transmission.Numericalsimulationsofthesystemincludinga20×80kmuncompensatedlinkareperformedusinglogarithmicstepsizedistributiontocompensatesignaldistortions.50%ofreductioninnumberofstepswithrespecttousingconstantstepsizesisobserved.Theperformanceisfurtherimprovedbyoptimizingnonlinearcalculatingposition(NLCP)incaseofusingconstantstepsizeswhileNLCPoptimizationbecomesunnecessarywhenusinglogarithmicstepsizes,whichreducesthecomputationaleffortduetouniformlydistributednonlinearphaseforallsuccessivesteps.
