Title :
Impact of forward error correction on energy consumption of VCSEL-based transmitters
Author :
Krzysztof Szczerba;Christoffer Fougstedt;Per Larsson-Edefors;Petter Westbergh;Alexandre Graell i Amat;Lars Svensson;Magnus Karlsson;Anders Larsson;Peter A. Andrekson
Author_Institution :
Chalmers University of Technology, Dept. of Microtechnology and Nanoscience, 41296 Gothenburg, Sweden
Abstract :
We present an analysis of the effect of FEC on energy consumption of VCSEL based transmitters for short-range optical links. We show that a low-complexity FEC can reduce the overall energy consumption of the transmitter.
Keywords :
"Forward error correction","Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers","Energy consumption","Transmitters","Receivers","Bit error rate","Registers"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341630
