Experimental Study on 42.7-Gb/s Forward-Error-Correction Performance Under Burst Errors

Author

Chandrasekhar, S. ; Liu, X.

Author_Institution

Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ

Volume

20

Issue

11

fYear

2008

fDate

6/1/2008 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

927

Lastpage

929

Abstract

We describe a novel method to experimentally investigate the performances of forward-error-correction (FEC) codes in the presence of burst errors with various burst length and duty cycle. Using this method, we observe that the coding gains of two commercial 42.7-Gb/s FEC codes are greatly reduced by long and dense error bursts. A correlation between the FEC performance and the FEC burst-error correction length is clearly shown. In addition, the measurement also shows an increase in coding gain in cases with certain short error bursts as compared to the reference case of steady-state white Gaussian noise.

Keywords

Gaussian noise; forward error correction; optical fibre communication; white noise; bit rate 42.7 Gbit/s; burst errors; coding gain; forward error correction codes; steady state white Gaussian noise; AWGN; Additive white noise; Error correction; Fiber nonlinear optics; Forward error correction; Gaussian noise; Nonlinear optics; Optical crosstalk; Optical mixing; Optical modulation; Burst-error correction length (BECL); forward-error correction (FEC);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2008.922374

Filename

4515986