• DocumentCode
    2846119
  • Title

    Relationship between electrical bandwidth and FEC overhead in a 100GbE digital coherent transceiver

  • Author

    Desbruslais, S.R. ; Savory, S.J.

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. Coll. London, London, UK
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    19-23 Sept. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    The finite electrical bandwidth of a digital coherent transceiver constrains the maximum FEC overhead. We investigate through simulations of a 100GbE system employing PDM-QPSK the impact that electrical bandwidth has on the optimal code rate which minimizes the required OSNR.
  • Keywords
    quadrature phase shift keying; transceivers; FEC overhead; OSNR; PDM-QPSK; digital coherent transceiver; finite electrical bandwidth; optimal code rate; Bandwidth; Filtering; Optical noise; Receivers; Signal to noise ratio; Transceivers; Transmitters;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Torino
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8536-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8534-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621324
  • Filename
    5621324