Title :
Coding gain of basic FEC block-codes in the presence of ASE noise
Author :
Faraj, Patrick ; Leibrich, Jochen ; Rosenkranz, Werner
Author_Institution :
Kiel Univ., Germany
fDate :
29 June-3 July 2003
Abstract :
We investigate the performance of Hamming and BCH block codes for the case of ASE (amplified spontaneous emission) noise as the dominating impairment. Numerical results obtained by Monte-Carlo simulations show excellent agreement with theoretical considerations.
Keywords :
BCH codes; Hamming codes; block codes; channel coding; error correction codes; error statistics; forward error correction; laser noise; optical fibre communication; wavelength division multiplexing; BCH codes; BER; FEC codes; Hamming codes; WDM systems; block codes; channel coding; coding gain; forward error correction; optical link; Bit error rate; Crosstalk; Error correction; Error correction codes; Forward error correction; Optical feedback; Optical filters; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks, 2003. Proceedings of 2003 5th International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7816-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2003.1263149
