Acknowledgement
This study was supported in part by the Program of the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province (Grant No. F2017203193), and in part by Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications Foundation under Grants JUH219002, JUH219007, NY215007, and NY215113. This work was supported in part by the Research Center of Optical Communications Engineering & Technology, Jiangsu Province Foundation, under Grant ZXF20170102.
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