Title :
Application of erasure decoding in fiber optical systems with FEC
Author :
Xie, Bing ; Yong Liang Guam ; CHEN, Jian ; Lu, Chao ; Li, Zhihong
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Infocomm Res., Nanyang, Singapore
Abstract :
Error-and-erasure decoding scheme is first proposed in optical receivers using FEC. Almost 1.3 dB of additional coding gain at output BER of 10-12 can be estimated for the intact RS (255,239) coding scheme.
Keywords :
error statistics; forward error correction; optical fibre communication; FEC; erasure decoding; fiber optical systems; Character generation; Decoding; Demodulation; Forward error correction; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fibers; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Redundancy;
Conference_Titel :
LEOS Summer Topical Meetings, 2005 Digest of the
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8981-6
DOI :
10.1109/LEOSST.2005.1528048