Transmission improvement through dual-carrier FEC gain sharing

Author

Rahn, Jeffrey ; Croussore, K. ; Goldfarb, G. ; Kumar, Sudhakar ; Mitchell, Matthew ; Dominic, V. ; Taylor, B. ; Park, Yu-Seop ; Adavani, V. ; Shyamsundar, V. ; Patil, M. ; Song Yu ; Freeman, P.F. ; Mathur, Abhisek ; Ziari, Mehrdad ; Welch, David

Author_Institution

Infinera, Sunnyvale, CA, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

17-21 March 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

A coherent MODEM is implemented with FEC payload and checksum distributed between two PM-QPSK optical channels spaced at 200 GHz. Real-time experiments verify PDL and PMD penalties are 40-50% higher without FEC gain sharing.

Keywords

channel spacing; forward error correction; modems; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre losses; optical fibre polarisation; quadrature phase shift keying; FEC payload; PDL penalty; PM-QPSK optical channels; PMD penalty; coherent MODEM; distributed checksum; dual-carrier FEC gain sharing; frequency 200 GHz; polarization dependent loss; polarization mode dispersion; real-time experiments; transmission improvement; Adaptive optics; Forward error correction; Gain; Optical fibers; Optical polarization; Optical transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), 2013

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0457-0

Type

conf

Filename

6533102