OptiComm-GPT: a GPT-based versatile research assistant for optical fiber communication systems

With the increasing capacity and complexity of optical fiber communication systems, both academic and industrial requirements for the essential tasks of transmission systems simulation, digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms verification, system performance evaluation, and quality of transmission (QoT) optimization are becoming significantly important. However, due to the intricate and nonlinear nature of optical fiber communication systems, these tasks are generally implemented in a divide-and-conquer manner, which necessitates a profound level of expertise and proficiency in software programming from researchers or engineers. To lower this threshold and facilitate professional research easy-to-start, a GPT-based versatile research assistant named OptiComm-GPT is proposed for optical fiber communication systems, which flexibly and automatically performs system simulation, DSP algorithms verification, performance evaluation, and QoT optimization with only natural language. To enhance OptiComm-GPT's abilities for complex tasks in optical fiber communications and improve the accuracy of generated results, a domain information base containing rich domain knowledge, tools, and data as well as the comprehensive prompt engineering with well-crafted prompt elements, techniques, and examples is established and performs under a LangChain-based framework. The performance of OptiComm-GPT is evaluated in multiple simulation, verification, evaluation, and optimization tasks, and the generated results show that OptiComm-GPT can effectively comprehend the user's intent, accurately extract system parameters from the user's request, and intelligently invoke domain resources to solve these complex tasks simultaneously. Moreover, the statistical results, typical errors, and running time of OptiComm-GPT are also investigated to illustrate its practical reliability, potential limitations, and further improvements.