• DocumentCode
    1677326
  • Title

    Design and Performance of High-Rate Irregular LDPC Codes for Turbo Equalization of PMD Channels

  • Author

    Schorr, T. ; Sauer-Greff, W. ; Urbansky, R. ; Haunstein, H.F.

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern
  • fYear
    2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    Applying LDPC codes to turbo equalization of PMD channels requires them to be adopted to the equalizer. A design using fitted EXIT functions offers improved OSNR tolerance of ca. 5 dB compared to MLSE equalization.
  • Keywords
    channel coding; equalisers; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre polarisation; parity check codes; turbo codes; EXIT; OSNR tolerance; PMD channels; extrinsic information transfer functions; high-rate irregular LDPC codes; optical fiber; turbo equalization; AWGN; Convolutional codes; Decoding; Equalizers; Maximum likelihood estimation; Mutual information; Optical noise; Parity check codes; Signal to noise ratio; Tellurium;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2007. OFC/NFOEC 2007. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Anaheim, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-831-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OFC.2007.4348434
  • Filename
    4348434