Title :
A fully integrated block turbo code FEC for 10 Gb/s optical communication systems
Author :
Ouchi, K. ; Kubo, K. ; Mizuochi, T. ; Miyata, Y. ; Yoshida, H. ; Tagami, H. ; Shimizu, K. ; Kobayashi, T. ; Shimomura, K. ; Onohara, K. ; Motoshima, K.
Author_Institution :
Information Technol. R&D Center, Mitsubishi Electr. Corp., Kamakura, Japan
Abstract :
A block turbo code FEC compatible with G.709 has been fully integrated on VLSI. Combining this with a 3-bit soft decision ASIC enabled a net coding gain of 10.1 dB at 12.4 Gb/s with 23.6% redundancy.
Keywords :
block codes; forward error correction; optical fibre networks; turbo codes; 10.1 dB; 12.4 Gbit/s; VLSI; forward error correction; integrated block turbo code FEC; net coding gain; optical communication systems; soft decision ASIC; Application specific integrated circuits; Decoding; Emulation; Forward error correction; Optical fiber communication; Parity check codes; Product codes; Redundancy; Turbo codes; Very large scale integration;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-803-9
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2006.215409
