Coding gain of FEC encoded 21.42 Gb/s RZ-DQPSK using an electrical differential quaternary precoder
Author :
Serbay, Murat ; Wree, Christoph ; Schopflin, Andreas ; Weiske, Claus-Jorg ; van den Borne, Dirk ; Jansen, Sander L. ; Khoe, Giok-Djan ; Krummrich, Peter ; Leisching, Patrick ; Rosenkranz, Werner
Author_Institution :
Kiel Univ., Germany
Volume :
3
fYear :
2005
fDate :
25-29 Sept. 2005
Firstpage :
521
Abstract :
We report a measured gross coding gain of 6.8 dB for 21.42 Gb/s RZ-DQPSK using standard FEC in combination with differential precoding. Furthermore we show that RZ-DQPSK has approximately a 2 dB higher FEC coding gain than RZ-DPSK.