Title :
Four-dimensional estimates of mutual information in coherent optical communication experiments
Author :
Tobias A. Eriksson;Tobias Fehenberger;Norbert Hanik;Peter A. Andrekson;Magnus Karlsson;Erik Agrell
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-41296 Gothenburg, Sweden
Abstract :
Mutual information is experimentally investigated for long-haul coherent transmission. Receivers that consider memoryless four-dimensional noise distributions can achieve significantly higher rates than receivers assuming two-dimensional symmetric distributions.
Keywords :
"Forward error correction","Dispersion","Digital signal processing","Bit error rate","Decoding","Gaussian noise","Optical polarization"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7342028
