• DocumentCode
    1816140
  • Title

    Soft coded modulation for sensitivity enhancement of coherent 100-Gbit/s transmission systems

  • Author

    Bülow, Henning ; Rankl, Tobias

  • Author_Institution
    Bell Labs., Alcatel-Lucent, Stuttgart
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    22-26 March 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    Soft-decoding of a PDM-QPSK signal with 34%-FEC overhead-enabled by a symbol rate increase from 28 to 35 Gbaud-leads to 10.7-dB OSNR sensitivity. Soft-decoding is not effective for POL-QAM 6-4 modulation.
  • Keywords
    modulation coding; optical communication; quadrature phase shift keying; sensitivity; OSNR sensitivity; PDM-QPSK signal; fiber optics communication; sensitivity enhancement; soft coded modulation; soft-decoding; transmission systems; Concatenated codes; Forward error correction; Iterative decoding; Modulation coding; Optical modulation; Optical sensors; Optical signal processing; Optical transmitters; Parity check codes; Polarization; (060.2330) Fiber optics communications; (060.4080) Modulation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fiber Communication - incudes post deadline papers, 2009. OFC 2009. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2606-5
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-865-0
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5032312